stude hub swap

[hankthebigdog]

I am looking to swap the hubs/brakes drums/ etc on the front of my 1932 studebaker. Does anyone know what will swap without a lot of $$$$$. It is a narrow axel [24-25" perch to perch] on leaf springs. hub to hub around 46-48" I think. I would like to leave the axle and springs and put disk brakes/rotors and all. It just has my puzzled on what to really do that wont cost a lot . I been told matching to a studebaker is costly. Any ideas for a poor boy. thanks

 

[Blue Eyed Devil]

Check with Scarebird.

 

[Magnum]

I'm doing old school on my M-5 roadster project, & putting early mid 60's 12" finned drum brakes... not sure of your bolt pattern... on my truck, it's 5 on 5, & the caddy drums are also 5 on 5... backing plates... the truck only has ( 2 I think backing plate bolts ??? ) which fit close enough on 2 of the 4 caddy backing plate bolt holes... this should give me about as much stopping power as drums allow, since the roadster won't weigh anything near what the caddy weighed

 

[sawzall]

Magnum,
what year caddy drum brakes are you using? they sound like something I could use.

 

[Magnum]

backing plates I got off E-bay, drums I ordered new from NAPA... one set of backing plates were 61-64, & one set was 65-67 ( I don't remember which was which, but one fit better on the fronts, & one fit better on my Dana 44 in the rear... or so I thought... the rear were the wrong 4 bolt pattern, so I need to weld over the holes & redrill the backing plate bolt holes ) ... I think the drums were all 67, but could double check on that... the 1st set I tried were Eldorado ( as I think that was what my backing plates were for ) but the Eldorado drums have a recessed center section, I needed deville drums

 

[RoddingRon]

I'm not sure of the Stude axle set up, but if it's similar to the early Fords on the ends, check the sizing of the king pins and thickness of the axle, and maybe you can have the ends of your axle machined to accept the Ford or 49-54 Chevy spindles. There are all kinds of disc brakes set ups for those spindles. I believe RPM on here even sells the Ford spindles pretty reasonable