disc brake swap

courious on what other guys are running on their 61-64's i currently have the 66-67 set up with the big 4 piston kelsy-hayes calipers but you can't get a wheel with enough backspacing to clear them and i have to run with spacers right now which i don't like doing. i'm doing alot of drag racing right now too so i'm going to be going with a skinnier wheel/tire combo. someone said 78 ranchero spindles work but i was courious on what else works also

thanks
rick

The common swap is the 70's mid size Ford Merc disc swap of which Rancheros are the same.Torino/Montego/Cougar/ LTDII and later 70's Tbird.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~stanchfi/...ion-60-64.html

Stu

I used spindles ect. off a wrecked 4 door 71 galaxie.Fair bit of clearence to my draglites.

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what size are your drag lites?

I've got 69 Country Squire wagon spindles/discs on mine.
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Fronts are 15" by 6".3 1/2" backspace.You,d be after the next size down maybe? 15" by 4" have a 2 1/4" backspace.

found a 72 gran torino today with disc that should work . right?[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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correct.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_spin.gif[/img][img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_tup.gif[/img] Stu

I remember reading where someone was using 78 Granada fronts. Bolt pattern may not be the same tho.

actually i did some measuring and since i do alot of drag racing with it the pizza cutters with about 2.5 in, of back spacing is going to work with the big calipers. got to borrow a friends wheel off his fairlane and it bolted right up. who knew?