March 2004
10 rear brake drums - ALL Studebaker cars

(Using a ) 10 inch drum for 1984-85 Jeep Cherokee with the 2.8 L V6 - 2 wheel drive. Best to search on-line for best price. Advance Auto Parts has Raybestos drums at a very good price ($40), best I could find and they had in stock at local store. You could by two for the price of the same at NAPA. Autozone store was just a pain in the butt trying to get the least expensive drum. The drum will overhang the baking plate but will not hit it.
 
This drum is finned.
 
Use 1/8" steel spacer from (part Number WSS5) www.stockcarproducts.com/wheels2.htm , they were $7 each. This outfit is in Virginia. Telephone number is 1-800-262-8099. They have other steel spacers available too. I am waiting for them to arrive to see if the OD will need to be filed down any to fit inside drum properly. Holes may have to be enlarged a bit to fit on the shoulder of the stud.
 
Use the following studs. Balkamp 641-1171 or Dorman 610-132. Same exact stud. Same as Avanti disc brake stud. Sequence is this. After removing hub from Stude drum and then removing the studs, place spacer on front of hub and then the drum. Insert the studs one at a time in the same sequence as if you were tightening the wheel nuts. Don't press them completely tight until all are in. When completed, approximately 3/32 inch of the non-threaded portion of the stud will stick out of the drum surface. This amount should not interfere with tightening the wheel nuts. If you are using the heavier Ford type wheels as came on the Ford Ranger, the 3/4 inch Studebaker wheel nuts are more than sufficient. The newer Ranger wheels are thicker and the hole is actually designed for a 3/4 inch nut not the larger 13/16 inch nut. I have tried both and the 3/4 inch gives the best fit. Anyone that thinks the 3/4 inch nut will pull through the hole in the wheel is not thinking clearly.
 
Paul Villforth
Nederland, TX