Hi, I have a 2001 ram 2500 with drum rear Dana 70. I can not for the life of me find drum brake backing plates. Does anybody have a source for any, looking mostly for the passenger side?? If not, can somebody give me a straight forward answer if a Dana 70 Disc rear will be a bolt in and go application? My project is dead in the water as of right now without a backing plate. Thank you!

 

I had a Dodge Dana 70 with drum brakes, 4.10 gears and limited slip that I had picked up used and noticed that it was missing the parking brake lever on one side. I was unable to find one anywhere. I ended up re-selling that rear,

I did a Dana 60 disc brake swap on my '96 Ram 2500 4x4. It was pretty much a bolt-in swap. No need to change the master cylinder. The only thing I needed to change was the speed sensor. I'd suspect that a Dana 70 disc brake swap would be the same.

 

Dana/spicer doesn't show any brakes on the exploded parts list so Chrysler made them. I recall another thread about this and they are not cheap if you can get them at all. NOS or junk yard.

 

I swapped the rear in my 01 from drum to disc. 100% unbolt ubolts shocks ect roll out one axle roll new one in bolt up and done. The only issue was I had to build a brakeline adapter. which was nothing more then a 2-3" piece of brakeline with a double flare on each end. For some reason the lines were different in that respect, actually I never hooked up the ebrake so not sure if the cables are the same or if you would have to buy new cables for a disc brake truck, mine was an auto so never used the ebrake anyway

I upgraded to the 70/80 hybrid also in this swap, the driveshaft was a close fit but I never had issue with length, there was enough slip yoke to eat up the difference in pinion length