Pictured here is the front of my passenger's side rear brake backing plate. First reason is just to show off Randy Gross's great work, this is a fresh rebuild from him.
What I really want to show is my choices for which bolts go where. I mentioned that Ken provides new bolts to replace the short originals. However, I happened to have two spare long original bolts and I found that these worked perfectly well. They didn't even have
that problem where the cotter pin doesn't catch in the castle nut.
I also didn't have the right size wrench for the nuts that Ken provides, so I had to use an adjustable wrench. Because Randy shipped his backing plates with the emergency brake carrier already attached, I knew I'd have trouble getting the adjustable wrench back behind the carrier to tighten the bolts.
The solution (for me) was to use my long shoulder bolts to attach through the lower shock bracket where the short bolts originally went. Then where the long bolts had been, I put one spare long bolt and one of Ken's bolts. This positioned Ken's bolt in the one open spot where I could get at it with the big adjustable wrench.
Obviously this solution is specific to me; I mainly include it to point out that if you have additional long shoulder bolts for the rear backing plates, you
can use them in place of the bolts supplied with the kit. This preserves the original castle nut setup on the front of the backing plate.