Ford 3/4 ton rear axe and wide 5 drums. HELP?!?!

Hello all, I could use some advice and info on a rear end I came across today. Wanted to buy it but not for sale, so I need to see if I can make one.
It's a 1939 Ford 3/4 ton rear axle with full floating hubs and an open drive shaft. It appears to be the same as the rest of the late 30's to early 40's 3/4 ton rears, but this one has the stock Wide 5 drums.
My question is, if I can find a set of these wide 5 drums, and I use them with a regular-hubbed 3/4 floating axle with no problems? If not, what are my other options? Do those aluminum replacement hubs used for dirt track racing work? I assume that if I used the aluminum ones that I'd be stuck with disc brakes.

Does anyone happen to have a set of these factory wide 5 drums for the 3/4 ton axle? Are they available reproduced? I'm trying to keep the old look, so really don't want disc brakes.

Any info or experience with this would be a big help. Until then I'll keep looking.
Thanks
Nathan

 

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The drums are pretty rare at this point. I have not seen a reproduction. You might have to make custom ones. Buick finned aluminum ones have found their way on to them before.

There are a handful of variances in the full-float axle ends, but not many. I seem to always have one of the weird ones to work on. Just measure the i.d. of the bearings first.

The new aluminum dirt track hubs are designed for disc brakes and do not, or at-least I don't think so, have the necessary support structure for drums.

 

The early wide 5 hubs bolt on to most of the later axles. The aluminum disc brake hubs can be fitted with modified Buick aluminum drums. You have to make an adapter that bolt on the hub where the disc brake hat fits, and bolt the drum to that.

 

I have suspected that they might be, but did not want to over-promise.

I haven't seen anybody do it, or had some come across my bench to try it out myself.

I do have a car in the shop right now where the customer wants wide-5 and drums all the way around, so who knows, maybe I'll give it a whirl.

Got any pictures?

 

It is difficult to find drums for the stock rear truck hubs. If you want to replicate a wide 5 bolt pattern similar to the truck hubs you can make up a set by using 60-70's version race car hubs like the one pictured. this will take an original 37-9 Ford passenger car brake drum or a machined Buick brake like the second picture. I have used aluminum hubs but they have 5/8" stock car studs.