Outboard drum conversion?

[Alec]

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.

Thanks,

Alec

[dazedandconfused]

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?

[Alec]

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 . . .

Thanks,

Alec

[oldestof11]

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.

[CumminsPower59]

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...

[dazedandconfused]

Yeah ive seen bigger trucks like that just never a pickup with full floating rear.

[PToombs]

The newer dodges are like that. Makes it easy to do brake work.

[dazedandconfused]

Gotcha, all the newer Dodge trucks ive worked on have had disc.

[PToombs]

I'm sorry!

[CumminsPower59]

I'm sorry!

Yeah...right!

[bmoeller]

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.

[dunes450r]

i hate inboard drums, mainly because all the pickups i've owned previously have had outboard

[Alec]

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 . . .

[bmoeller]

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.

[ahale2772]

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