worth going from 10" brakes to 11"?

One of the negatives of 10 inch is the hardware kit, springs and such are no longer made. The other parts, self adjuster and pivot and links cannot be bought new. I tried every where, even a post here didn't come up with anything. You can get the shoes, retainer pins, drums, star adjuster, and wheel cylinder, but no hardware kit, you probably could piece one together but that self adjuster would be a problem. I even entertained putting early bronco backing plates so I could put 10 brakes on my CJ, but I decided to leave 9 inch on back and put 10 Inch on front (I only had one set of complete brand new 10 inch backing plates) and save some money to upgrade 11 inch on rear with disc on front. So I guess if you are dumping money into a brake system look to braking systems that are supported easily, 10 inch are not.

 

Joe
I have a set of the self adjusting linkage for (2) 10" CJ brakes, no backing plates. let me know what you need if you're still looking. they are used though

 

Jerry: I plan to, just need 3 new drums since I only have 1 now. There are 2 "real" machine shops in town and I'm sure that once I explain to them what I want they can do it (after all, Billy did it himself! R) ). That will be a lot cheaper than sending 4 drums to Long Beach.

 

Joe: I know they still make the wheel cyls.. I'm sure that the return springs and hold down springs are available somewhere.

Anyone know?

 

If Billy can do it, anyone can do it! R)

BTW, what drill size (hole) did you use?

 

Thanks.

 

That's why I think any machine shop should be able to do it easiely. BTW, I think you used 40 holes total, correct. 2 rows of 20?