If the drum breaks were that bad, how in the world did any of those trucks survive for 50 years or more of running max weight loads (or more likely big overloads) every day, so a hotrodder could decide he needs to convert to disk breaks? They should have been totalled a few weeks after they rolled off the assembly line. Yes, the spelling errors are intentional!
LOL!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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