Wheel bearing +race

67Dart273 said

Somehow I doubt the local O'really?s will stock old Mopar rotors. Hell I bought myself a used Ammco disk / drum lathe. "In a previous life" decades ago, as a parts counterman, I've turned THOUSANDS of drums and rotors, from the smallest made to heavy trucks. We had an A frame hoist to make handling the big logging truck drums easier.

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There's nothing wrong with turning those parts, especially if you have the equipment. It's rare to see any brake lathes in shops anymore though.

I upgraded my front discs to the 11 3/4" Police/Taxi rotors on the front of both my '68 A-Body & '70 E-Body. I run Doctor Diff's Econo kit rotors on the rear of both cars. Those front rotors are readily available at the local stores, but I did order fresh front rotors for my '70 and fresh rear rotors for my '68 in the last few weeks.

The rears do have some custom machining to the register hole and the lug nut holes, are slotted, drilled and plated. The fronts came drilled, slotted and plated too. I replaced the races in them with National bearing parts though, at Cass's recommendation. They do look nice.

For pads, I went with Firm Feel's metallic composite pads up front and ceramic composite pads in the rear. The brake system on both cars is phenomenally better than stock.