Slip on or press on drums ?

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Originally Posted by sweetk30

NO THERE IS A MAJOR CHANGE

i found this out the hard way 1 time . i had all the parts to go disk from a mid 70's i had with aftermarket kit . i wanted to install on a 96 c3500 truck and the newer with slip on drums and i found out the hard way the spindles are different and the bearings are set a little closer together .

and even in the aftermarket world there is 2 specific kits .

Ahh yes! I may had forgotten that the slip on drums use different hubs and spindles. I knew the later factory disk spindles where shorter and used different bearing spacing than the pressed drum spindles but I had forgot the slip on drums used the shorter spindle too. Thanks for setting it straight! I went thru all this when I put the 01+ 10.5” 14 bolt factory disk setup on my ‘89 square body 14 bolt pressed drum rear axle.