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Outboard drum conversion?

Postby Alec » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:58 pm

Has anybody put 2nd gen outboard drums on a first gen axle? If a SRW 80 axle hit me on the head I'd go for it, but in the mean time, I'd like outboard drums . . . Short of buying a drum at the parts store, I don't have any samples available to me, so I figured I'd see if anyone has checked into this.

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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby dazedandconfused » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:03 pm

Im not sure what you are asking here. Are you talking about just using the 2nd gen dana 70 brake drums on the 1st gen dana 70?
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby Alec » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:36 pm

Are you talking about just using the 2nd gen dana 70 brake drums on the 1st gen dana 70?



Yup, or any other drums that might just fit on the other side of the wheel flange and work with the original backing plate . . . (and perhaps a spacer behind the backing plate). I would guess that the outboard drums are hub centered, though, instead of stud centered, but I thought I'd ask if anyone had done the conversion . . .

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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby oldestof11 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:42 pm

dazedandconfused wrote:Im not sure what you are asking here. Are you talking about just using the 2nd gen dana 70 brake drums on the 1st gen dana 70?


He wants to pull the drum without pulling the axle shaft, nut, and bearing. We have in-board drums, not out-board.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby CumminsPower59 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:07 pm

Outboard drums are like what's on a big truck, the ones I have seen are all hub centric, there might be ones that are lug centric...I'm not sure. Outboard drums make brake service easy as pie, smack the drum witth a BFH and pull it right off without pulling the hub. I haven't ever seen them on a pickup though...
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby dazedandconfused » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:50 pm

Yeah ive seen bigger trucks like that just never a pickup with full floating rear.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby PToombs » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:01 pm

The newer dodges are like that. Makes it easy to do brake work.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby dazedandconfused » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:04 pm

Gotcha, all the newer Dodge trucks ive worked on have had disc.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby PToombs » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:04 pm

I'm sorry! :cry:
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby CumminsPower59 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:54 pm

PToombs wrote:I'm sorry! :cry:


Yeah...right! :P
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby bmoeller » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:08 pm

The 2 gen trucks, up to early '01 have outboard drums. They switched late '01 to the discs.


My '86 Ford F-250 (Sterling axle) had outboard drums too. My '82 F250 gasser with the Dana 61 axle was inboard like the '92 W250.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby dunes450r » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:38 pm

i hate inboard drums, mainly because all the pickups i've owned previously have had outboard
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby Alec » Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:07 pm

Sooooo . . . I'm not the only one who prefers outboard drums, but I'm on my own for figuring it out, eh? Maybe I should have just asked if someone could mail me a SRW 80 one piece at a time . . .
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby bmoeller » Sun May 27, 2012 6:29 pm

It is probably doable. I imagine most of us don't have the time or coin to experiment, as much as we may want to. I prefer outboards myself. Though, on big trucks, i always replace the wheel seals when I replace the brake shoes. Usually saves time and money later, when an old seal goes shortly after the brake work.
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Re: Outboard drum conversion?

Postby ahale2772 » Sun May 27, 2012 6:33 pm

its 4 ubolts away from just an axle swap, with the strenght benifits from a d80 why not just swap the whole axle
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