Long story short, I converted my 72 rear brakes from 10" to 11". I put the backing plates on last year sometime, and just now am assembling them.

What I need help on is:
How does the e brake hook up
What shoe goes where (big in front?)


Another thing I'm wondering is, does 10" and 11" hardware interchange? I'm not sure what hardware I have. I'm sure it's 11" but can anyone post pics or have measurements?

Donor vehicle was a 1977 d100 9 1/4 rear. Thanks in advance!

e-brake hooks to a pivoting arm on the rear shoe connected to a cross arm to the front shoe. short shoe goes in front, long shoe in rear[think mullett hair cut]. 10 & 11" hardware kit is different. the only thing that may be the same are the attaching nails and washers - providing the shoe width is the same. sorry, no pics.

Restored 11" brakes.

Exactly what I too need. The car I own(V code 4 speed Challenger)was campaigned in the very earliest 1970's as a SS drag racer(time slips are consistent very low 12's at 113 mph) Have found that automatic adjusters from brakes were removed,,,no wonder why almost no rear brakes after converting fronts to disc. Pic shows me how to refurbish back to factory original.

Does anyone know if the auto adjuster refurb kits that you can buy at parts resellers include all the parts that I need. Car now has basic manual adjuster star wheel system. To compound my confusion it has 2 "lefts" and no "rights" and both appear to be non-Mopar star wheels.


As an aside, I've puzzled over the observation that the backing plates have 2 star wheel adjusting slots instead of the normal single one. What is the reason for this,,,perhaps manual verses automatic adjuster????. Cars sold for Police cars did not have auto adjusters as I have read.

Later backing plates had 2 slots so they could be used on either side of car.
Single slot plates are L/R specific.

On 2 slot backing plate question, I too had initially thought was to be interchangeable from right to left. Then question of emergency brake hook up pops it's ugly head. Would this thought thrown in, are the backing plates still interchangeable? That's when I came up with the thought police cars verses regular civilian models.

Thank you for the parts diagrams. They mention for 70 Charger, would Challenger be the same?

From where did you find these illustrations of parts and pricing. It appears that I additionally will need the entire spring kit as illustrated in the lower set of diagrams too.

Thanks again.

Oops, upon re-reading of your posted text, I do see mention of 2 holes for emergency brake hook-ups. Puts that question to bed!