5-lug swap with TL/CL knuckles?

xmsleepr · Feb 15, 2010

i tried searching but didnt come up with much...
so im looking on ebay for knuckles to do my 5-lug swap and pretty much every seller shows the accord 98-02 v6 knuckle to be the same as the CL 01-03 and TL 99-03, and if they are will the rear calipers from a TL work in the accord too?

for example

Mike's_Taffeta · Feb 15, 2010

Everything should swap over exactly the same. The suspension components from 98-00 accord and 99-03 tl are interchangeable.

xmsleepr · Feb 15, 2010

so would the rear brakes and everything just swap over? im excited now their parting out a TL semi-locally hopefully they give me a better price than $350 an ebay seller said for all 4 shipped...

Mike's_Taffeta · Feb 15, 2010

Rear brakes should fit, but you also have to get the parking brake cable if you have drums in the back. If you have discs in the back you should be good.

bdeitemeyer · Feb 15, 2010

Hmm...I know there's a tricky answer to this somewhere. The hubs should transfer over without a problem, but there's a gray area when it comes to certain parts of the brake assemblies. There's a reason that the TL/CL rear big brake kits aren't compatible with 6th gen accords, but I can't think of it off the top of my head (could be a difference between the calipers or rotors).

nyknick1015 · Feb 15, 2010

i think i know what you were talking about but it was because the caliper mounts were different in the rear. But if he is swapping over the full knuckles then i dont think there should be a problem. Its kinda like the 4cyl to 6cyl front rotor swap, the 6cyl has a bigger rotor so the calipers were different

bdeitemeyer · Feb 15, 2010

nyknick1015 said:
i think i know what you were talking about but it was because the caliper mounts were different in the rear. But if he is swapping over the full knuckles then i dont think there should be a problem. Its kinda like the 4cyl to 6cyl front rotor swap, the 6cyl has a bigger rotor so the calipers were different

Yeah, that may be one of the differences. I think the other differences were the diameter and thickness of the rotors. As long as all TL parts are used and continue to be used (such as replacing worn rotors with TL rotors instead of Accord rotors), there shouldn't be a problem.

drey · Mar 5, 2010

i went to a jdm store and bought euro-r knuckles and hub (according to the guy that sold them to me). i found out later when trying to install them that the 98 TL brake disc fit on them and the 98-02 V6 disc didnt. the knuckles were also different, so I had to go to the junkyard to get the wheel hub. calipers were interchangeable though.

just be careful.

JDM ACCORD EX · Mar 18, 2010

I'm new to doing 5lug conversion but i have a 99 Accord EX 4cyl disc all around and i was told that if you change the wheel hub from 4lug to 5lug and rotors without changing the calipers that everything will fit. Is this true

BlkCurrantKord · Mar 18, 2010

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