Hi all I’m wondering what hubs/drums/discs fit early ford spindles. I have a model t body lined up and would like to build it more traditional but if it gets me rolling I’m willing to use disc brakes if needed.
'39-'48 Ford Lockheed & repop Lincoln Bendix brakes along with matching early Ford hubs & drums (repop drums and hubs are available), '48-'52 F-1 & '53-'56 F-100 Bendix brakes with matching F series hubs & drums, and all manner of disc brakes with bearing adapters and caliper brackets. If you want wire wheels stick with Lockheed or Lincoln; otherwise you need thick ugly spacers; bad news for scrub radius. If you want wide 5 stick with Lockheed or Lincoln and original Ford wide 5 drums are the only thing available. Avoid '36 fronts.
Wires are non existent even if I am in a city where Kelsey Hayes had a factor and so did ford. Thinking this is going to more or less be a take what I can get thing. Funny enough I had a set of ford wide 5 axles(36) at a friend’s house I wasn’t able to get up there before he moved and he s****ped them sadly complete drums wheels front I beam and rear banjo. this will probably be a tube frame as I don’t like the look of the model a frames kicking around here fairly junk.
I am putting 36 rear axel and 36/39 brakes on my 31 and what I mean is 36 drums and 39 backing plates.
37–’48 Ford spindles are the common base Drums: use ’40–’48 Ford hubs/drums (traditional) Discs: use a bolt-on kit (often GM or Mustang II based) Don’t mix random parts - use matched setups
Good to note sadly those axles I had have been recycled now. I had read about Buick drums being used too.
I used MT Brakes on my 40 Ford. Bought new backing plates, drums, Bendix brakes Bought them from Gary at Cornhuskers Rod and Custom.
I used MT Brakes on my 40 Ford. Bought them from Gary at Corn Huskers years ago. Here's the site. Cornhusker Rod & Custom I am pretty sure he now gives a discount to HAMB and Fordbarn members. Excellent product. Use your original FORD rear wheel bearings as the repros are not hardened properly.
Just when I think I know everything I never know enough what's wrong with the 36 front drums... Why do I got a feeling or something wrong with them that's probably what I got sitting in the shed stored away for a future project that I may never get to lol On that note how do I identify them?
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Would 66 f100 hubs work? I think the drums are similar enough to work according to a few threads on here.
Nope; the inner bearing bore is to small to fit any bearing cup and cone that would fit an early spindle. Don't know specifics on the backing plates; but from pictures, they don't look very suitable.
'36 front backing plates are in set quite a bit and as a result the hubs have a deep offset and will hit a juice brake backing plate well before the inner bearing is seated. Once you look at a few drums; it is pretty recognizable that the center snout sticks out a lot further than '37-'39 wide 5 drums. '36 back drums work. Some of the wide 5 drums are two piece units. We have removed "good" drums from two piece '36 fronts and used them on later hubs that had "bad" drums.
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