OK, I know this topic has been thrashed to death but my situation is slightly different. I want to use a Strange Engineering disc conversion on my race car. They do not offer a kit for Maverick/Granada but do have one for 67-69 Mustang, 66-69 Fairlane/Falcon. I have committed to their product because I received a $350 voucher through our racing series. I am prepared to make whatever changes are necessary relative to tie rod ends, ball joints etc. As a matter of fact, I will also be changing the lower control arm to those from Global West. This exercise is primarily to save weight. Am I correct in assuming that I can successfully mount a drum brake spindle from any of the cars noted above? It sounds to me, from reading previous threads, that the only reason their kit will not fit my spindles is the difference in the bearing sizes.
Am I correct in assuming that I can successfully mount a drum brake spindle from any of the cars noted above? ...frank...
Yes. They are the same spindles. The only difference you could see is in tie rod ends. The tie rods will be the same on the inner part (as a Mav), but the outer bolt diameter varied between years on the Mav I believe. Edit: Forgot to mention that all the years they list are small bearing spindles. The first couple years of the Maverick were small bearing as well. My 72 has smalls. Most other FoMoCo products with the common spindle went to big bearings in 70. Mavs didn't see them until around 74 when we got the common Granada brakes.
Idea! If you still have 72 drum spindles... Buy the kit first, if it doesn't fit, buy the appropriate spindles. The reason I say this is because even though I know the spindles will swap, I am not positive that the small bearings on the earlier big cars are the exact same size as the small Maverick bearings. I would take a bet they were, but am not 100%. Point being: Why buy spindles that you already have??? And if those spindles have a slightly different diameter bolt hole for the rod ends, then you are buying another set of rod ends and alignment for spindles that you already have. What can it hurt??
My '72 has large front bearings, or at least it must. My drivers side front spindle is the original one from '72. I had to replace the passenger side one, I used the passenger side spindle from my '74 Grabber. My car has front backing plates and all front brake hardware from a '73 Grabber. Everything, 72, '73 and '74 was bolt together and interchanged exactly except the front brake lines ('74 Brake lines wouldn't screw into the '73 wheel cylinders)... I believe the change came later then '74.
67-69 Mustang, 66-69 Fairlane/Falcon with drum brakes use the same inner and outer bearing, mavericks use a different.
