Nate Dynamite
New Member
There's a few of you out there in this car ocean that have already given me some good information, advice, and people to contact over on my Introductory Thread, but for further ideas and advice, I am making a proper thread for it. (I will be contacting Craig a.s.a.p.).
This is dangerous, but I’ve been thinking. I have highly considered converting Snow White, my 1966 Plymouth Fury III, over to a disc brake system. This means upgrading the master, brake booster, and getting dual piston calipers. BUT, I would like to at least keep the rear drums if I can, the only issue I have had and the reason I want to do a conversion, is because of the surprising factor that I am unable to source brake shoes or drums, or in the case of ordering from parts geek, parts that will fit and be correctly sized.
I understand that it should not be so hard to find these parts, especially finding shoes, but yet the surprising thing has been happening.
About a year ago, I ordered from Parts Geek; as one might not expect, all of the parts were incorrectly sized. The shoes were too big for the new drums, the new drums being tight to the new shoes locked up, and the new drums just left too much gap for the old shoes (like wiggle all over the place). The other thing about the drums was that in order for them to be on the new or old ones right was to have washers slipped over the bolts.
Slipped my mind during the dis-trauting time, but there are no pictures of the one side that was tested on.
My plans supposedly:
What I originally wanted to do was simply replace the drums and shoes, but then at a later date to swap the fronts out for discs and upgrade the master cylinder and the brake booster while I was at it.
Now, if I am unable to get drum brake parts in the foreseeable close future, I will convert the front and rear brakes over to disc brakes. I plan on doing this in two different ways;
The first, but likely problematic, buy a conversion kit from LEED Brakes or Summit Racing. Though recently I have found this brake company that has quality conversion kits that I have seen on/in a lot of cars at car shows recently, including mopars, Wilwood Disc Brakes; the only thing that they don’t sell would be boosters.
The second, either follow the '65 Fury disc brake conversion advice or somehow find another way to go about it without using anything Ford or GM, or having to get a new frame.
To the people who have already given me suggestions, thank you very much and I will be following through with those suggestions and check with mobileparts, Craig.
This is dangerous, but I’ve been thinking. I have highly considered converting Snow White, my 1966 Plymouth Fury III, over to a disc brake system. This means upgrading the master, brake booster, and getting dual piston calipers. BUT, I would like to at least keep the rear drums if I can, the only issue I have had and the reason I want to do a conversion, is because of the surprising factor that I am unable to source brake shoes or drums, or in the case of ordering from parts geek, parts that will fit and be correctly sized.
I understand that it should not be so hard to find these parts, especially finding shoes, but yet the surprising thing has been happening.
About a year ago, I ordered from Parts Geek; as one might not expect, all of the parts were incorrectly sized. The shoes were too big for the new drums, the new drums being tight to the new shoes locked up, and the new drums just left too much gap for the old shoes (like wiggle all over the place). The other thing about the drums was that in order for them to be on the new or old ones right was to have washers slipped over the bolts.
Slipped my mind during the dis-trauting time, but there are no pictures of the one side that was tested on.
My plans supposedly:
What I originally wanted to do was simply replace the drums and shoes, but then at a later date to swap the fronts out for discs and upgrade the master cylinder and the brake booster while I was at it.
Now, if I am unable to get drum brake parts in the foreseeable close future, I will convert the front and rear brakes over to disc brakes. I plan on doing this in two different ways;
The first, but likely problematic, buy a conversion kit from LEED Brakes or Summit Racing. Though recently I have found this brake company that has quality conversion kits that I have seen on/in a lot of cars at car shows recently, including mopars, Wilwood Disc Brakes; the only thing that they don’t sell would be boosters.
The second, either follow the '65 Fury disc brake conversion advice or somehow find another way to go about it without using anything Ford or GM, or having to get a new frame.
To the people who have already given me suggestions, thank you very much and I will be following through with those suggestions and check with mobileparts, Craig.
