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    Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy View Post
    i use to do ford 9s to g body cars there not hard to do i made up a T that had a place to hold the bottom control brackets tru the bolt holes and then the top part slid up and down that held the upper control brackets at the right angle and bored a some 3/4 by 2 solid cold roll and press new bushing in and welded them on the ford 9 and reused the lowers g body brackets.i tried to keep away from the 57 T rear ends brake parts like drums at the time i did them were hard to find and were small but i was told that front shoes pickup trucks were the same size?
    If you use the backing plates and all you can swap any ford 4.5 BC brakes on to it..
    Last edited by Daffy427; 03-01-2009 at 03:50 PM.
    I remember when hot rods were all home made.

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