Chevy 6 stud to 5 stud

Can any body help here..! I have a 59 Apache pickup axle which is currently 6x139.7 stud P.C.D and I would like to run 5 stud wheels and keep my drum brakes, Is there a simple conversion or do I have to consider disc brakes. Or machining and redrilling to required P.C.D...any help would be greatly appreciated Cheers

 

I'm thinking that 51-54 passenger car hubs and drums fit these trucks. I know that they fit the earlier ones.

 

1949-1954 chevy car hubs

 

49 to 50 car hubs may fit but the drums are for Huck brakes. I dont think they will work but I dont know everything and what I did know I have forgotten by now.

 

http://adaptitusa.com/6-lugto5-lugadapters.aspx?page=2

 

I don't know what kind of old Chevy parts are laying about down there...if you can find those 51-54 car hubs and drums you can change the front easily. For the rear, you can get a car rear end assembly, from a Chevy full size car up to about 1964, or a Camaro from the 1970s. You might be able to have the original rear axles and drums redrilled.

Or you can get adapters.

 

Being as where he lives in the world adapters may be out of the question due to their regs.

Savage66 I've never tried it on the later trucks but I do have 54 Chevy car 5 lug brakes on the 54 truck axle under my 48 pickup. On those you have to change the backing plates to make them work but I think it is a direct swap on the 59 with maybe some inner wheel bearing change.

On the rear, a rear axle out of a full size late 60's Chevrolet would probably fit the bed a bit better than a Camaro or mid size axle. There are a lot of brackets to be trimmed off but that doesn't take long.

 

I would ask the question over at the 47-59 truck board.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/forumdisplay.php?f=13

I run the 6 lugs on mine with chevy 4X4 Rally wheels.



Cadman

 

I normally end up redrilling my stuff, its not that big a deal.

I have to laugh, there is a '65 Chevy pickup that I have owed off and on since highschool. Last time I owned it I changed it back to 6 lug so it would be like it was when we first put it together on '69.

Just thought I would throw that out there, has nothing to do with the question.