1936 Ford Mechanical Brakes

[sturgis 39]

A friend has a 36 Ford with mechanical brakes. Does the emergency brake apply the front and rear brakes or is something wrong?

[Don Rogers]

Both the brake pedal and the emergency brake lever operate the brake cross shaft mechanism, and that in turn operates both the front and rear brakes.

[sturgis 39]

Thanks for the drawing.

[sturgis 39]

Will the wide five brake drums from a 36 work on a 39 Ford with wide five drums with hydraulic brakes.

[Bruce Lancaster]

Front drum has wrong offset to swap with '37-9, rear drum was replaced in service by '37-9 so it probably swaps fine the other way too.

[fryguy]

Bruce, how about the front wide five drums from 37-39 are they interchangable as well? Say a wide five front drum from a mechanical 37 and a wide five drum from a 39 juice, can they be swapped? How about the shoes?

Fryguy

[Bruce Lancaster]

'37-9 drums are interchangeable, both front ones and rears fit mech and hydraulics.
'37-9 rears are the service replacement for '36 rear, and the '37-9 front would be what you want when converting a '36.
Shoes would be different from hydraulic...entirely different brake design in there.

[fryguy]

Thanks Bruce for taking the time, this helps immensely