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> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]On Behalf Of
> B1LLYW@aol.com
>
> It's good to have friends. A buddy of mine found a 68/69 B-body 8 3/4
> housing for me and gave it to me yesterday. It will fit nicely
> in my Gen II.
> It came with a set of axles and the backing plates for the brakes, It's
> dirty and rusty but I expect will clean up fine. And it was free.
>
> How do I go about determinging which drums, shoes, brake
> hardware, etc. that
> I will need to buy in order to put it back together again?>
> Bill White
If your Dak has 10" drums, you can use your original backing plates, shoes,
hardware, and wheel cylinders. If you are going to the 5 lug pattern, use
drums from a '74 Challenger, either finned or not. These drums were used on
many B and E bodies but since I had a Challenger when I did my conversion,
it's what I looked up first. I used Raybestos brand.
If you want to retain the 6 lug pattern, you could have Moser Engineering do
the axles and use stock drums.
You will need to relocate the spring perches on the axle housing to fit the
Gen II Dak and add shock mounts.
Can't give you any info on wheel backspacing for the B-body housing as I
used A-body length, which is shorter, and, by the way, has perches which
already matched the Dak.
Ray
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