Brakes - Mechanica to Juice?

[Chopped50Ford]

Is it possible to convert mechanical backing plates (rear) to juice brakes?

[klazurfer]

Hi Chopped... , `40 - `48 Brakes are still pretty easy to find , so you probably would be better off using those . Other than that , it could probably be done , but I can`t see how it could be worth the "Brain-pain" involved .. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Pist-n-Broke]

It's very critical that everything works off the dead center of the spindel. Unless your one hell of a machinest with nothing else to do I'd just step up for a set of juicers ready done from Ford.
The Wizzard

[Bruce Lancaster]

You mean convert the original mechanicals to hydraulic? There used to be an exchange kit from Ansen, advertised throughout the fifties, that did that--it was available for all '28-38 Fords. They rotated the rear plates to match hydraulic orientation and drilled out for what I believe was a circa 1940 chevy cylinder, chosen because it had a mechanism to adjust the shoes right on the cylinder. I don't know any more detail than that--despite the fact that these things were in every mailorder car catalog on the planet for at least ten years, I have never seen a set. I guess everyone noticed that it was easier and cheaper to use regular Ford hydraulics...

[36-3window]

thanks bruce for posting that info , that clears something up for me....last month i was working on a 34 ford that had original backing plates, original brake drums...but had hydraulics just as you decribed , with the adjustable wheel cylinders ..and i couldn't figure out what they were. the car was "restored" aound 1961-62, that would fit with your story

i ended up putting f-100's on

[hotrod54chevy]

there was a whole "how-to" on this topic in an issue of ol skool rodz not too long ago
Creepy

[Chopped50Ford]

I Have been looking for 42-48 but just thought a conversion would be easier...maybe not... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif