So the good news is I got the new calipers from speedway's garage sale and the brackets look good for the parking brake. Bad news is these calipers are much smaller than the Eldorado or K20 fronts so they are of no use to me. I will take the brackets off and try and sell on ebay or something.
The brackets need to be trimmed a little to clear the mounting bolt. Also one caliper wasn't drilled for mounting these, so I drilled and tapped it.
With the new parking brake brackets on the caliper for a mock up:
I determined the best position for parking brake and bleeding is at the 3:00 position. That meant I had to drill and extra set of holes in the plate. Plate was hard steel or high grade steel so I had to go slow and was only able to make it with this nice cutting fluid. Love this stuff:
Got the bearings installed, and oil seals, and prelubed with semi synthetic gear lube.
Hubs are now on the truck, as are the dust shields and plates. Need to torque the nuts and install lock rings to preload the bearings. Looks like I should torque inner nuts to 55 ft lbs, back them off 1/4 turn, bend short tab on lock ring in, install outer nut and torque to 175, then bend long tab over outer nut.
Got the bumpers painted!
