Stock Single Piston Caliper vs Viper 4 Piston Caliper

They were 74 B body pin calipers. None of the pics I've seen show a different location.
I had a set of slider brackets and new calipers so I just swapped them out.

I think you had the wrong calipers. There were two different pin types used on B-bodies. See pic below, It sounds like you used the left one with an X under it, you needed the ones on the left 4 and 5. The correct B-body ones are 1972 Down or all E-body ones.
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