1. anyone ever used the stock spindles and made their own brackets and parts for front disc brakes on a 1949 dodge coronet 2. i have a 350 with a 400 turbo ****** out of a truck installed in the dodge and need to know cheapest and easiest way to mate ****** with original rearend 3. any pictures or information on how to make a shifter for the 350/400 using original set up on column 4. is a ****** cooler absoutely necessesary on my old ride 5. is the neutral safety switch needed and if so...any pics or info on how to make one to fit my 400 turbo ****** using original colum shift and set up I think that should just about get me started. I appreciate the knowledge and ideas on this site and I just love to look at the pics for information. Please email me any information or text/call me at 6154157801. Thanks and God bless
Olddaddy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/member.php?u=2453 here on the HAMB has a very reasonable priced disc brake kit. I am running one on my 48 Plymouth.
Olddaddy and Scarebird have kits on here. I went the Scarebird route and it was really easy to do. Total cost was around $400-$500 with everything. Take the front half of a Chevy driveshaft and mate on the back half of the original driveshaft. I had a driveshaft shop make me a new one and it was $300. I would imagine you could make a linkage to do that. Yes, automatic transmissions need the cooler either in the radiator or as an add-on cooler. If you use the Chevy radiator, it should have one. With the original radiator, you'll need an auxiliary cooler. Don't know on your last question.
i keep getting told that becuase the ****** is a 400 truck with the "bolt on" yoke, that i'll have to rebuild the rear of the ****** and put in a slip yoke for the travel purposes. If the trucks didn't have "travel", then why would my old dodge need "travel". I have the original driveshaft with the mating plate on the end and I don't see why the length just can't be set and then cut with with an adapting yoke on it to fit the ujoint. But then again, I'm wrong quite a bit.
If you insist on doing the brakes from the junkyard without a kit there is a how-to here: http://www.dndrodshop.com/ look for the "Disc brake conversion" tab. But I'd recommend just getting a kit. IMO the time savings alone makes it worthwhile. I used "Oldaddy" 's kit and was very pleased.
Trucks did have travel.. It was just located at the Hanger Bearing yoke, not at the rear of the transmission. You NEED Travel
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