Rear Brake Drum Dilemma

[Ozzy2013]

Originally Posted by kieth

You could have the center of the axle machined down in diameter to match the brake drums, that was what we did to my 66 gmc when converting it to 5 lug.

Kieth

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-GMC/i-8bbRfcq/A


with the brake drum installed:

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-GMC/i-4G39bfw/A


One other thing you will have to do is to drill a oblong hole out in the backing plate to allow one to adjust the brake shoes before bleeding the brakes the final time. (my brakes were adjustable from the outside of the brake drum wheras the later model drums were adjustable from the bottom backside of the backing plate......Keith

Keith i have a 68 with a 6 lug dana 44 rear i am going to weld and redrill my axles to 5 lug .It looks like this is what you did where did you get youre 5 lug drums?Thanks for any help you can provide.Oz