What size is my rear brake drum?
No way 11" brakes on an a body from the factory but I'll defer to hemi71x.
11" drums on an A is way overkill unless you live on top of a mountain. And getting all that mass going is gonna slow you down especially with /6 power.
Well, in 1976 Ma Mopar made some A body police cars.
That package had 11 inch drum brakes in the rear, and a sway bar over the axle.
Very rare.
How many produced? Who knows? But not many.
Surviveability now, into 2019, not very many.
There are "rumored" to be some 76's made for the Mexican market to have 11 inchers in the rear, but i never found verifiable proof of that to be true.
Why Mexico, who knows?
I found this on the internet, but it really doesn't specify the rear brakes being 11 inch.
But somewhere i have a service manual; that stated they were, so that's what i'm going by.
In 1976, the Dart was offered with a police package, with production code A38. The A38 Dart had high-specification components and systems throughout, including a heavy-duty suspension with a rear sway bar, stronger leaf springs and firmer shock absorbers, larger brakes with semi-metallic front disc pads, maximum engine cooling, and high-capacity alternator and battery. The engines were Chrysler's 225 slant-six, 318 V8, and 360 cu in (5.9 L)
LA V8 (220 H.P., with non-catalyst in 49-state models and a true dual exhaust; California models had a single exhaust with the catalytic converter) with an A727
TorqueFlite transmission. Police-specific equipment such as a calibrated speedometer ("certified" 120 mph), high-intensity dome light and wiring harness for a rooftop light bar were standard equipment and an A-pillar spotlight and push bars were optional. Production volume was low, with most A38 Darts going to the
Los Angeles and
Venturapolice departments in
southern California. For the most part, police agencies preferred the larger intermediate
Dodge Coronet or full-size
Dodge Monaco.
Until i find, dig out, that manual, i'm going to step back on my reply in regards to the rear brakes.
Re reading the above, maybe it means 2,750 inch piston, caliper pistons over the 2.600 inch pistons, and
10 inch rear brakes versus 9 inch brakes.
Got me confused now.
Sorry if i got you confused, too.
