Rear brake troubles

[SheriffRyne]

http://www.taurusclub.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=21&t=19184&st=0#entry206326

there's the link to my thread on the TCCA, and here's the explination:

I'm doing the drum to disk conversion on my 98 SE, everything is going well, except the caliper is pinching the rotor in and making it cockeyed. The piston is seated all the way down, and both the rotors and pads are the correct ones. I know it's not a SHO, but I'm hoping someone will at least have some ideas about what is messed up. Oh, and the donor parts are for a non vented setup.

Thanks for any help

Ryne

 

[luigisho]

Not enough info about the donor car setup. I see that in the other thread from TCCA that you have a non-ABS hub setup and that seems weird if you are indeed using GenIII parts. Where are the hubs from? Where are the calipers from? I have encountered incorrect calipers from the parts store before. Either an error in the computer that references the wrong part or the box had the correct part # but contained the wrong caliper. Also the disk should slide all the way back on the hub to the dust shield.

 

[SheriffRyne]

the parts are from a gen3 sable. I had drum brakes before, and that is how I don't have ABS. I measured hubs at a junk yard and there is no dimensional difference between ABS and non ABS hubs, even across generations. The calipers, caliper brackets, and backing plates all came from another member of the TCCA, and came off one car, so there shouldn't be a mixup of parts

 

[Mr Anonymous]

the parts are from a gen3 sable. I had drum brakes before, and that is how I don't have ABS. I measured hubs at a junk yard and there is no dimensional difference between ABS and non ABS hubs, even across generations. The calipers, caliper brackets, and backing plates all came from another member of the TCCA, and came off one car, so there shouldn't be a mixup of parts

While the ABS/non-ABS hubs may be the same dimensions, what about the disc/drum hubs? I've never looked at them side-by-side, so I can't say, but I do recall last time I bought rear hubs that there were different part numbers for disc and drum, as well as for ABS or not.

 

[SheriffRyne]

i should have been more specific. I measured MY hub to backing plate dimensions and compared them to the ones at the junk yard that had disc's stock... sorry for the confusion.

we've eliminated the rotors, caliper brackets, and backing plates, as well as the hubs, which leaves nothing else to be messing things up. There aren't any mysterious spacers or shims I'm missing are there?