I've got a set of front wide five wheels,backing plates with juice brakes,and hubs. My question is: Can i use the backing plates from the wide fives with a little later drum like a 40? I want to use 40 ford wheels and the one piece drum/hubs. ---if i can,if not i'll wide 5 it!
Yes--all drums from '37-48 fit all hydraulics from '39-48. There's probably someone on here ready to swap with you...
Someone here probably KNOWS about '35 drums--but my guess is that the rear drums would quite possibly work with hydraulics. I'm pretty sure (no research materials here at work...well, it's a university library, but no early Ford research materials, anyhow...) that '35 and '36 brakes are the same beneath the drum...'36 rear drums will apparently fit hydraulics...and '36 drums were superceded in the parts catalog by '37 drums...so I think the answer is most likely yes. Tryemon before spending any money...
i have 36 rear drums on my car and they work fine....so i'd guess yes to the 35's working good luck if you wana sell the wide 5 drums i know someone looking zach
No personal experience BUT strong "knowledge" is that would most definetly fit and even better bring the support to rims if you plan to run 16" wire wheels as they are just the ´35 ! My friend even used the ´34 rear drums with ´40 rear brakes despite the 1/4 inch diifference in width. Some grinding of shoes and backing plates if remember correctly. Anyway sometimes you take what you have... I´ve seen model A brakes converted to hydraulics...done back in the days after the war when there was shortage of everything auto related or not..
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