I have a front brake drum in need of replacement. In the future I intend on changing to power disc, but for now, I am sticking with the drum brakes until my wife's memory of how much I have already spent on this truck starts to fade ....

Dennis Carpenters lists a front drum brake for this model but makes a point to state that it is imported. My question is "has any one used one of these imported drums or should I try and scrounge the junk yards for a used drum in good shape"?

My luck with repop parts has not been all that good is the reason for asking.

Thanks
Fred

 

Hi Fred,

I doubt very seriously that you will be able to find a used drum that is serviceable. The tollerance on those is ony 11.000 +/- 0.060"

Be sure to have those sized because people used to let them go and they will cause big problems with braking if they are allowed to go too far out of tollerace - both with fitting the shoes and warping!

Also 48-52 drums were unique due to the offset.

The imported drum you are talking about is the same drum that all the resto parts places have. They all get it from the same supplier. The least expensive place to get them (that I have found) is JobLot Automotive.

JobLot Automotive

I have two of their drums on the front (with the big 390 and C6 in it) of my truck with about 17,000 miles on them and I have had absolutely no problems.

 

Thanks Julie... That was what I was hoping to hear.

Fred

 

There was another thread running concurrently with yours that went into depth a little more on those. You might want to page through the forum index to find it if you need more info!

 

8C1125A (replaced 8C1125) .. Front Brake Drum / Obsolete

Fits: 1948/52 F1.

GREEN SALES CO. in Cincinnati OH has FIVE = 800-543-4959.
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8C1125 =

GREEN SALES CO. has ONE.

CARPENTER NOS OBSOLETE PARTS in Concord NC has FOUR = 800-476-9653.

DC's obsolete parts division is not the same as his repro parts division.

There are 1000's of obsolete parts llisted on DC's website that are not listed in his repro parts catalogs.

 

Will these work?
https://www.napaonline.com/en/search...ualified=false

 

THANK YOU BILL I will be on the phone to DC today.

 

You guys do realize this thread is almost 10 years old now? Hopefully they still have some......

 

NOPE obviously I cannot figure out how this forum works . I better leave this to the experts , and sit on the sideline thank you

 

Heck no. Post away.