HI all, this is my first post in this part of the forums. My son and I bought a 54 F100 at the beginning of December that has the rear end out of a late 60's Ford Truck. Its either a Dana 44 or 60; definitely not a 9". The parking brake was never hooked up when the rear was swapped and the cables are seized and mangled. Will the factory 54 cables work on my rear or do I need to get the ones for the rear I have?

 

Stock ones should work, almost all diffs I have worked on have the same size parking brake cable hole.

 

Scott where are you located ? I have some newer cables that I bought but think they fit all like truckee said I have left and right still in package they are for a 70 F-100 but did not need them as I used the cables that were on the truck when I changed out to a 9 ". If you want them I will go look for them it is an item that I will not need anymore.

 

What size are the rear brake shoes, 11" x 1 3/4" (1953/67) or 11" x 2 1/4" (1968/72)?

1959/67 F100's with Limited Slip came with Dana 44's, because the 9" wasn't available w/Limited Slip in F100's until 1968.

1963/67 F100's were also available with Dana 60.2's and 60.3's with Limited Slip. All Dana's have an inspection cover, the 9" does not.

The Dana 60 was only installed in F250's, have 12" brakes and 8 lug wheels on a 6.50" bolt circle.

 

artscott61, I live outside York, PA. What would you want for them?

 

My two cents...if you're not trying to go completely original (truck has already been modified anyway), I'd skip the original parking brake handle and grab just about any parking brake pedal from your local wrecking yard. That damn handle has nailed me in the shins more times than I care to count. So in my current build, I'm using the parking brake pedal from my donor 89 Crown Vic.

 

Hi Bill, I haven't pulled the rear wheels yet so I'm not sure what width the shoes are. The axle is definitely a Dana and it is LS. I did sand the axle tube some and found numbers but they don't seem to match the info I'm finding online.

 

I used stock 53 cables on mine with a 9'' rear axle and they seem to work well..

 

602809 is the Dana ID number, but I don't see a suffix used to identify it properly. But, these Dana ID numbers are not listed in the truck parts catalog until 1973 and then they begin with 603.

The Dana axles prior to 1973 could only be identified by the Ford AXLE ID tag, located under two of the bolts that retain the inspection cover to the housing. Many are missing today.

 

 

surprisingly the axle tag is still there. It's not a great picture

 

Prefix is C6TA (1966) .. I cannot make out the suffix, but it's one of these in this pic:

Post what it is, and I'll tell you what you've got.

 

the suffix is AV. The number below that is 2809 2. At least I think it's a 8. Too cold right now to go out and double check