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I am hoping I am in the right place. I have an early truck with a Dana 60 rear end. I am trying to find the right parking brake cable end to attached to the drums I have. I have been looking at several universal kits but every time I get hung up with the attachment to the lever arm which is different then I have seen before. Has anyone sen this condition before? Based on my searches I think it is from an F250 but no one locally(that I have found) has the part in stock so I am trying to confirm before I order one that it has a reasonable change of attaching to this arm.
Not much here to help me help you. What "early truck" is this out of? Is it original to the truck? I.E I need an application to look it up. What size brakes are they?
The truck I own is a 1949 F-3 however the axle is out of some later truck. It was installed before I bought the truck. It seems to be a Dana 60 Full float axle and have rather large drum brakes ("Budd" is cast into the drums). If I recall correctly I measured the inside diameter to be more then 12". I can try to get a better measurement this weekend. In case it helps here is the drum
OK but there are still way too many "IF"s involved. With tapered hubs like that I can tell they are something older than Bumps.
In my 57-63 slide F350 SHOWS 13 x 2.5 brakes. F250 SHOWS 12.125 X2.
In my 48/56 slide shows 12.125 brakes fitting 1956 only F250.
The piece you are asking about prolly came on the park brake cable(s). For what year would you like me to look up the cables? For what wheelbase? If it were my truck I'd try to find some later model Dana 60 brakes complete. Backing plate on out. Ones where the cables mount up to those levers more standard.
I had at least one person suggest that it probably came off a 64 - 69. Does your slide show the attachment end of the brake cable?
As far as replacing the brakes goes I have a longer term plan to replace all the brakes with Disc but in the interim I need a parking brake
Thanks for the help!
No. It doesn't. I had tried that the other day. Ford's pic of the brakes is a "typical" picture. There is no P/B lever in the pic at all. And the pics of the park brake systems do not show in the drum. ND (Bill) will prolly stop by this thread this weekend. He's prolly run across this before. I 1st became a ford parts man in 1977.
Well it's got self adjuster so it's studs so maybe early 60's I can't remember when theses came out with self-adjuster. What about the BOD marking on the axle tube that should give some info..
