Early Ford Brake Slip On Drum Conversion How-To/DIY
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- čas přidán 18. 09. 2022
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Chapter 9 of my 1927 Ford T Touring hot rod build, I'm still working on my 1946 Ford banjo open drive rearend and trying to get my frame into a roller!
This time I'm figuring out how to convert the combined hub and brake drum assembly into a more modern style where the brake drum slips over the hub and can be removed without puling the hub. Why, well for maintenance convenience and just to see if I can... it's a DIY extravaganza!
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Nice. I have been looking for away to put modern wheel studs in my model A. And I get slip on drums 👍
Glad I could help, thanks for watching!
Neat video. I have a '46 truck banjo. I used the same process to remove the sweges, a 5/8" hole saw. I ran into another issue with my studs. Previous owner had replaced studs w/o sweges; backside of studs were WELDED to hub to lock them in place. Research told me that had been a way to lock in studs since sweging isn't really an option. I plan to do the same with spot welds on studs.
Hi Dale, thanks for watching! Yeah, that spot weld work around was pretty common… normally after someone smashes out the studs not knowing about the swedging and how it works. As long as your hubs weren’t messed up when the original studs were removed you should be fine.
Dropped my drums at a shop 3months later told me they couldn't swedge it. What a PITA.
My studs are nurreled AND have the smooth swedge part...wondering if i even need to swedge it to the drum at this point. The studs are already pressed into the hub.
Yeah, that does suck. Unless the studs are oversized in the hub, the swedge to the drum helps hold everything together. I would be leary if using the standard Ford studs meant to be swedged. Good luck though and thanks for watching!
Excellent "how-to" - might also apply to Model A brakes which also use the swedged-in studs.
Thank you and thanks for watching! I haven’t messed with The Model A mechanical brakes (and don’t have any to look at) so I have no clue if they could be converted or not.
@@AJStarch I was only mentioning this because the Model A drums also use swedged in studs.
interesting conversion been thinking if this was possible on other car makes with a similar design
I guess that would depend on the specific application but I would guess it’s probably possible. Just be thorough with your research and design… AND BE SAFE! Thanks for watching!
You can't use ft drums because they won't accommodate the park brake shoes
Hi AJ, did you have a problem with the drum getting full coverage on the brake shoe, because the drum is now on the outside of the hub, moving the drum the thickness of the hub. I'm doing a similar conversion, using Buick drums
No, not at all but my drums were already over the outer side of the hubs but just swedged to studs. So the physical relationship between the drums and hubs are still exactly the same.
Great info- what did the drums that you used as slip on come off of- thanks
Thanks Steve! I don’t know the exact year of the drums I used but they’re 1940 to 1948 Ford drums. Those years used the same size/interchangeable drums for both the front and rears. Thanks for watching!
@@AJStarch thanks!
What size stud did you use? Length or a part#
Hey thanks for watching! I put the part number and description in the video at the 20:09 mark but the NAPA part# is NOE 641 1555
@@AJStarch hey appreciate the info
@@AJStarch I was thinking of doing this to my Model A brakes, but the studs you used looked too long. Does Napa have them in different lengths?