I am about to go on another disaster. I have the finned buick drums, the bearing adapters. I need to know what spindle round or square? if there are any better choices other than lincoln, about backing plates. the info i have is 52/58 f 250.my buick plates were the 3 hole type which ,i am told is wrong. point me in the right direction.please.If some one has the parts pm me .
I'm useing Buick backing plates ( '62 rears). I just redrilled 'em and mounted 'em. I don't know if that's the absolute correct traditional thing to do but it works for me.
Lots of posts on Buick drums. You should be able to use either round or square spindles depending on what you're trying to do. If you use Ford hubs, loads of info around - sounds like you're using buick hubs with bearing adapters - not sure which backing plate to use there. The F250 backing plates were definitely used '53-56 with "correct" spacing - they used same size brakes up until the '70s, but not sure of backing plate offsets... Here's a few posts: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91081&&showall=1] http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64647 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57584 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6883 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5098 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2647
question for those using the '39 Lincoln brakes in the Buick drums if I remember correctly the Buick drums take 2-1/2" shoes but the Lincoln stuff has 1-3/4" shoes... is there a 2-1/2" shoe that will fit the Lincoln backing plates?
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