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FREEZE! You don't have to take the rear axle(s) out to get to the brakes. You only need to back the star wheel off enough for the drum to slide off the axle.
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Note to question your knowledge, but you sure? I have the dana 60 full float axle. It doesn't seem to come off without taking it off
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Ah, scratch that --I tend to think in relative terms. I have an F100. F100s don't require unbolting axles and such --just back the brake adjuster off, remove the drum and bah-da-boom, there's the shoes and hardware right in front of you.
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I wish it was that easy. But this isn't really that hard, just a nuisance to me
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Presently, my '69 F100 has (power) discs front/drums rear. My truck had manual 4-wheel drums when I bought it 5 years ago. I have most of the major components to put discs on the rear --I just need a pair of 31-spline axles with a 4.5" lug pattern and have the front rotors machined and redrill the lug pattern from the current 5 x 5.5" lug pattern to a 5 x 4.5" lug pattern, a new set of 5 x 4.5" lug pattern wheels and I'll have power 4-wheel discs. --but, that's a conversion that's down the list to do at a later date.
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I'm wondering if the person who turned your drums measured them. There is a maximum diameter spec and both drums on an axle should be the same size. Lots of people turning drums don't know either one of those facts.
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As far as I know, the drums are original and so are the rear pads
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I'm no stranger to drum brakes but it's also because of that that I much prefer discs. They are far easier to service and you don't have out of adjustment issues with them that you do with drums.
Presently, my '69 F100 has (power) discs front/drums rear. My truck had manual 4-wheel drums when I bought it 5 years ago. I have most of the major components to put discs on the rear --I just need a pair of 31-spline axles with a 4.5" lug pattern and have the front rotors machined and redrill the lug pattern from the current 5 x 5.5" lug pattern to a 5 x 4.5" lug pattern, a new set of 5 x 4.5" lug pattern wheels and I'll have power 4-wheel discs. --but, that's a conversion that's down the list to do at a later date.
Presently, my '69 F100 has (power) discs front/drums rear. My truck had manual 4-wheel drums when I bought it 5 years ago. I have most of the major components to put discs on the rear --I just need a pair of 31-spline axles with a 4.5" lug pattern and have the front rotors machined and redrill the lug pattern from the current 5 x 5.5" lug pattern to a 5 x 4.5" lug pattern, a new set of 5 x 4.5" lug pattern wheels and I'll have power 4-wheel discs. --but, that's a conversion that's down the list to do at a later date.
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Since I don't have an F250/F350, and I've never worked on the brakes for either one of those, I don't know exactly what's needed for the rear disc conversion --the front calipers/rotors and the caliper anchor brackets?
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2) Rotors (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Calipers (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (1) Set of brake pads (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Soft brake lines (braided stainless steel lines available)
• (2) Banjo bolts
Copied off a website selling the kit. Not bad but not really necessary since towing won't be happening much
• (2) Calipers (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (1) Set of brake pads (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Soft brake lines (braided stainless steel lines available)
• (2) Banjo bolts
Copied off a website selling the kit. Not bad but not really necessary since towing won't be happening much
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2) Rotors (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Calipers (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (1) Set of brake pads (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Soft brake lines (braided stainless steel lines available)
• (2) Banjo bolts
Copied off a website selling the kit. Not bad but not really necessary since towing won't be happening much
• (2) Calipers (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (1) Set of brake pads (1975 -1988 GM 3/4 ton 4x4 truck front)
• (2) Soft brake lines (braided stainless steel lines available)
• (2) Banjo bolts
Copied off a website selling the kit. Not bad but not really necessary since towing won't be happening much
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From: Black Hills of SD
Didn't you say you had them turned? If not then you need to measure them. And drum brakes use shoes, disc brakes use pads .
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That was for the fronts, the rears are in unknown condition right now
