1968 10" drum brake hardware kits?

72Dodge said
I'm already starting to come to grips with the situation. It's going to be easiest both in the short and the long run to just convert at least the rear to BBP. A couple new axles is going to be a lot less headache than dealing with the obsolete rear drum situation all the time. And the front will get the discs when it needs the fronts done. I already have some nice 15" BBP steelies, so I'm all set. No one else is going to care, and it's not worth the hassle to try to keep the brakes original.

Thanks again.

EDIT: Can I use my same backing plates? Just switch the axles, then get the newer 10x1-3/4" BBP drums and use the newer brake kit? It seems like it would be just that easy... of course when I started this thread, I thought the whole thing was as easy as just finding a brake hardware kit!

Trouble is the narrow shoes. Most people change the backing plates (that requires the rearend to be town down) because the new axles are slightly longer so they can use commonly found brake parts. If you search the right drums are around used and I see new ones ocassionally. There was a guy on this site that had 6 new made in USA rear brake drums and if I recall correctly had only sold 2 but I can't find the thread. There are good used ones on the site from the guys that change over to BBP because all the original 8 3/4 a body rearends were SBP.