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| | | | Joined: Oct 2022 Posts: 35 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2022 Posts: 35 | Getting "correct" brake parts for this 12" 8lug is difficult... I'm def fed up with it enough to put a different rear end under it (Blahblahblah)
Is there a direct bolt in swamp? (That has brake parts on the market)
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1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,879 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,879 | Why not just adapt a newer complete brake assembly- - - -backing plates, shoes, drums and all, to the existing hubs and housing? You've got a choice of all kinds of 8 lug axles with the same wheel bolt pattern to choose from- - - -Dodge, Ford, GMC, International, and a few others. Many of them run the same Dana type 60 axle, which would be a pretty simple swap if you're determined to abandon one of the best full floater rear axles ever made.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 367 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 367 | I found a dana 60 out of a 1963 gmc 2500. 8 lug looks like it will bolt in with out any mods. gear ratios avail 410 to 340.i lucked out and it turned out to be a limited slip.
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,460 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,460 | I found a dana 60 out of a 1963 gmc 2500. 8 lug looks like it will bolt in with out any mods. gear ratios avail 410 to 340.i lucked out and it turned out to be a limited slip. Should have a pow-r-loc Good set up!
BC
1960 Chevy C10 driver 261 T5 4.10 dana 44 power loc
1949 GMC 250 project in waiting
1960 C60 pasture art
Retired GM dealer tech. 1980 - 2022
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,879 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,879 | You'll find that there's a slight mismatch on the width of the spring mounting pads on the axle assembly. I was in a hurry to install the one from a 1970 GMC I put into my 59 Burb, so I forced the springs apart a little and bolted everything up. That was 40 years ago, and it's still there!
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!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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