1959 fury disc brake conversion

[Canadian 66 Fury]

Have had a guy come ask me to do a front disc brake conversion on his 59 fury. I’ve been doing some research and haven’t really found anything good on this. Has anyone done this before? I am going to be swapping out the original rear dif for a 68 drum brake setup but not sure if there is a good setup for disc brakes for the front. I talk to Leed brakes and they don’t do anything for that year.

 

[69PHOENIX]

G'Day,
I have Put this Up Quite a Few Times Before.
No-One has Ever Acknowledged it as Helpful or Not.
So Here I Go Again.
I Had a 59 Dodge Custom Royal I was Experimenting with for Disc Brakes.
The Front Discs off a 69 - 72 Plymouth Fury Appear to Bolt Straight onto the Dodge Spindles.
Bearing Sizes & Spacing "Appear" to be Identical. The Disc Slides on / Fits with No Slack Etc.
The Difficult Part seems to be in Making Caliper Mounts.
Which I Figure Can't be All That Hard.
I Don't Know if the Plymouth Spindles are the Same Sizes as the Dodge But From My Experience with Chrysler they Didn't Change Anything Unless They Had to.
Anyway Just a Suggestion.
Hopefully May Point You in a Fruitful Direction.
Compare the Specs for Both Vehicles.
You Fellas will have Far more Information Available Over There.
The Other Thing I will Mention is that the Earlier Cars are Fairly narrow in the Rear Track. ( As I Remember the Dodge was 59 Inches)
An 8 3/4 out of a 65 "B" Body Charger was My Solution. (Needed to Re-Locate the Spring Perches)
Again, As I remember the 68 Fury's were about 62.5 Inch in the Rear Track.
Unfortunately I was Retrenched from My Job before I got to Finish Anything and had to Sell the Car.
It was a Choice of the Car or the House and It's Hard to Live in a Car. LOL
There have Been a Fair Few People with the Earlier Models wanting to "Disc Up"
So You Might have a Few Customers if You Sort Out a "Good" & Reliable Way to Do It.
Anyway All the Best & I Hope This is Helpful.
Regards, Tony.M

 

[Canadian 66 Fury]

G'Day,
I have Put this Up Quite a Few Times Before.
No-One has Ever Acknowledged it as Helpful or Not.
So Here I Go Again.
I Had a 59 Dodge Custom Royal I was Experimenting with for Disc Brakes.
The Front Discs off a 69 - 72 Plymouth Fury Appear to Bolt Straight onto the Dodge Spindles.
Bearing Sizes & Spacing "Appear" to be Identical. The Disc Slides on / Fits with No Slack Etc.
The Difficult Part seems to be in Making Caliper Mounts.
Which I Figure Can't be All That Hard.
I Don't Know if the Plymouth Spindles are the Same Sizes as the Dodge But From My Experience with Chrysler they Didn't Change Anything Unless They Had to.
Anyway Just a Suggestion.
Hopefully May Point You in a Fruitful Direction.
Compare the Specs for Both Vehicles.
You Fellas will have Far more Information Available Over There.
The Other Thing I will Mention is that the Earlier Cars are Fairly narrow in the Rear Track. ( As I Remember the Dodge was 59 Inches)
An 8 3/4 out of a 65 "B" Body Charger was My Solution. (Needed to Re-Locate the Spring Perches)
Again, As I remember the 68 Fury's were about 62.5 Inch in the Rear Track.
Unfortunately I was Retrenched from My Job before I got to Finish Anything and had to Sell the Car.
It was a Choice of the Car or the House and It's Hard to Live in a Car. LOL
There have Been a Fair Few People with the Earlier Models wanting to "Disc Up"
So You Might have a Few Customers if You Sort Out a "Good" & Reliable Way to Do It.
Anyway All the Best & I Hope This is Helpful.
Regards, Tony.M

Thank you I am definitely going to do some research into that

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Talk to the Forward Look forums out there. In addition to what's available here for info there is likely likely some good information available on those forums too.

 

[twostick]

5th Ave spindles or any other FMJ body are supposed to work on those cars with some minor tweaking. Add a repop 75-79 Cordoba caliper bracket and you can fit the 11.75 B body rotor.

ECI makes a nice kit that is well engineered. Not cheap but reasonable given what you are getting. It uses your factory spindles with custom hubs and 1 piece caliper brackets and GM buy them anywhere calipers.

Engineered Components, Inc. - Your One Stop Brake Shop!

Kevin

 

[OKDart]

When I was looking into it a few years ago, the Scarebird kit was the most common.

Mopar

1957-61 Plymouth, Dodge front

 

[twostick]

When I was looking into it a few years ago, the Scarebird kit was the most common.

Mopar

1957-61 Plymouth, Dodge front

Those welded together caliper brackets look sketchy as fck to me, always have.

Kevin

 

[MEV]

Those welded together caliper brackets look sketchy as fck to me, always have.

Kevin

I have been running scarebirds stuff on my newyorker and torturing it on the track for years, no issues. My car runs low 12's and is street driven, so the brakes get pounded on.

 

[fury fan]

5th Ave spindles or any other FMJ body are supposed to work on those cars with some minor tweaking. Add a repop 75-79 Cordoba caliper bracket and you can fit the 11.75 B body rotor.

ECI makes a nice kit that is well engineered. Not cheap but reasonable given what you are getting. It uses your factory spindles with custom hubs and 1 piece caliper brackets and GM buy them anywhere calipers.

Engineered Components, Inc. - Your One Stop Brake Shop!

Kevin

FYI -
When I learned that C-body calipers dried up at the parts store I started looking at some other parts also. (C-rotors still seem to be readily available, both 69-72 and 73 styles are reasonably priced.)
Looked at B-body calipers (seemingly good supply) but those require a thinner 1" rotor so won't fit on a C unless the rotor is changed.
The 11.75 B-rotor uses a different inner wheel bearing, so it's not a drop-in.

But what I saw was that the 11.75 B-rotor might be drying up. It is used on 75-79 B-bodies and the 79-81 R-bodies - so not a huge pool of popularity to drive sales.
The reproduction Cordoba caliper brackets were out of stock also. With all of the current supply-chain issues, many companies are bringing overseas castings back home, and casting houses are swamped (of the 5-ish ones I've spoken to). That may or may not be the reason, though.

IMO, ECI seems to me to be the best of the 'mom-and-pop' type kits (vs Scarebird, AAJ). AAJ has limited info on their website to evaluate and Scarebird uses bearing spacers, which I am not convinced is a good long-term idea.

 

[MEV]

FYI -
When I learned that C-body calipers dried up at the parts store I started looking at some other parts also. (C-rotors still seem to be readily available, both 69-72 and 73 styles are reasonably priced.)
Looked at B-body calipers (seemingly good supply) but those require a thinner 1" rotor so won't fit on a C unless the rotor is changed.
The 11.75 B-rotor uses a different inner wheel bearing, so it's not a drop-in.

But what I saw was that the 11.75 B-rotor might be drying up. It is used on 75-79 B-bodies and the 79-81 R-bodies - so not a huge pool of popularity to drive sales.
The reproduction Cordoba caliper brackets were out of stock also. With all of the current supply-chain issues, many companies are bringing overseas castings back home, and casting houses are swamped (of the 5-ish ones I've spoken to). That may or may not be the reason, though.

IMO, ECI seems to me to be the best of the 'mom-and-pop' type kits (vs Scarebird, AAJ). AAJ has limited info on their website to evaluate and Scarebird uses bearing spacers, which I am not convinced is a good long-term idea.

I dont remember bearing spacers in my scarebird front brake conversion.