Thems the brakes

Donivan your the man I'm still amazed at the pics you have on everything anyone has to ask . Its people like you who will make it posible for me to finnish this van . I'm gathering the parts , the cash ,and the tips .Its going to be a while but I can't wait to be posting pics of the progress. thanks again . GKPOST

is that a factory or aftermarket rear swaybar in the first pic??? If aftermarket, where did you acquire it??
thanks,
-Tim

Great pics and, as usual, they are a great help. Thanks Donivan and V-V for doing this. Happy Festivus.

This one is beyond hope ! Dan thevanman had an complete axle from a 67 with 4:11s that is going in next week. Had to more spring purches and use new 2" one as my 64 springs are 2" wide.

Center to center was 1/2" narower in the 64. I knew that going to be a problem and had a new set of perches ready to go. Had read on a post here about the difference. Difference may because of the wider springs. Too much to squeze the springs in to make it work. Not sure if 4:11 gears will stay or will be swaped out for hopefully a set of 3:42 gears if a 12 bolt carier will take that ratio.

Don

Nice demonstration:

Q: how much axle end play is normal for the 10 bolt?

Am I right in geussing that as the axles inner ends ware against the pin, the end play will increase?

This makes for a big problem with the rear disc brake crowd as the exccess axle end play causes caliper "knock back" and they get a low brake pedal.

M1D

Don, I had a 10 bolt with 3:36 ratio. The RPM calculators say I should run about 2250 at 60 mph with the tires I'm runing. A 700R with a 0.7 over drive will be a nice combination ( hopefully ). If not we will change the gears down to the lowest we can get. There was a post awhile back about spreading the springs to accept a second gen rear and it showed a lot of wear on the shackles. Enjoy this day and stay dry out thereas we are in for s\another freeze here in sunny FLA.

Do they get out on the nterstate and go for long cruises? We have put 13000 on the 55 pick-up in 5 years. Am building it to do some trips, mabe even the Nationals.

Will try to get demensions tomorrow if the rain stops. My 350 will surely reve up more than the 6 cylinders on top end. Still have rear end out so can get good demensions on center bolts. Not sure if able to get good measure on 67 housing as it is all painted now.

I went back to some stuff we checked out before.
"Okay heres what I got for measurements , 15 inches from housing to perch and about 47 inches center to center on the spring perches, the distance across the differential housing is slightly less than 16 and 1/4 inches, add 'em all together ya got almost 47 inches. And that 47" was also my center measurment on my front spring hangers." This is on my 12 bolt 4.11 1965 rear axle. The spring perches are 2" wide, Makes me wonder why yours are 2-1/2 " Don ? Also I am running about 2250rpm at 60 mph in overdrive with the 700r4 with 295/50/15's that are about 26.5" tall. I'd say its okay for hopping around and squealing tires but if I was going to spend a lot of time on the Hi-way I'd bump to a different ratio.

Right , the tube lengths I think will differ between the 10's and 12's anyway. The housings arent the same. Im thinking an inch difference in width on them or close.

Don, looks like you may have a late model axle as the perch looks like it is 2 1/2" wide as the second gens are. The u bolts are not parallel to each other and thus the 3" at the botttom. I was not able to get an accurate deminision from the 2nd gen axle as it has already been changed. My center bolts are 47" center to center. If the spring perch was at 47 1/2" center to center, the rear spring eye would be over 1/2 wider than the shackel and could cause both a handling and wear problem if they could be made up.