We are going to be doing this on a set I am going to give my Son for his '29. I've had them stashed as spares for mine for awhile, and am going to trade him the ones that are on his car for the Buicks.

There are two ways to do it. The later Ford hubs mount on the outside of the drum, and the earlier ones mount on the inside of the drum. Depending on which ones you have, it becomes a simple machine shop/lathe operation to open up the center hole in the buick drums to take the diameter of the Ford hub.

First of all, you have to grind off the round rivets that hold the Buick hubs in place, then you remove the hubs. Then you take the Buick Drums and the Ford hubs to a machine shop, and have them bore out the center hole in the Buick drums to be a press in fit on the Ford hubs. Then have them press in 10 new studs after they drill the Ford 5.5 inch bolt pattern into the Buick drums, lining up with the same holes in the Ford hubs.

I've got an article saved on how to do this exactly, and will dig it out tomorrow and post the precise info on what needs done. Do you already have your set of drums? They are getting stupid expensive now.


I'll post more tomorrow.


Don