ive been in a question mood lately

Honestly, i would stay away from spacers and adapters, I did a lot of damage to a 92' olds 88 LSS by using adapters to change the lug pattern to smash a set of camaro z28 rims on the slightly-smaller lug pattern, long story short, one curve at 90 mph and my front end was on teh ground, and they were bought from ebay as well custom machined for me... snapped all 5 studs and my rim went rolling, nailed an explorer and my front fender, bumper, steering knuckle, lowr control arm and all, had to be replaced... all because i wanted the camaro rims. Keep searching you'll find a set of 4-lugs for your baby... or you could just swap rear ends, drop new spindles and go 5-lug with disc front? Fortunately, my mav's a 5-lug allready. I've found that Nissan and ford shared a few lug patterns, try searching that way, i have a buddy who got a set of rims for his sister's 64.5 mustang from a nissan... can't remember if they were 5 or 4 lug tho... Keep searching if i find anything i'll let you know!

 

yah, i wish i could just find a donor car a while back i missed on. a 74 4 door with a 302... for 400 dollars, man im sad i missed it, that woulda had everything i wanted

 

Something was not right with your brakes because I drove my Sprint for over 180,000 trouble free miles with 4 lug drum brakes and never had a problem. Was easy to get over 30,00 miles out of the shoes.

As far as adapters, I also ran them in my early days on Falcons and never had a problem. I know all the arguments about loads and such, but they still sell a bunch of them and they work. In this day of, "law suites, the easy way to make a buck," if they were that unsafe, they wouldn't be on the market. There are foreign patterns that are the same as the Maverick. Just look for 4 x 114.3mm.

 

There was nothing wrong with them, they were totally rebuilt exactly how they came from the factory. I'm sure you could get much better shoes back then, then the cheap bottom of the barrel shoes auto parts stores have now... I never had to touch the rear shoes, which were from the 80's, and I got 30,000 miles out of them (plus whatever were already on them when I bought the '74 Grabber). They were made different then the three sets of new shoes I bought for the front, mainly in the way the fiction surface was bonded instead of riveted on. I found the rivets greatly reduced life of the shoes because you had to replace them long before they were anywhere near worn out. If you didn't, the rivets would eat into the drums and ruin them, which was more money down the drain.

Bottom line, discs are a way better choice.

 

old datsuns and nissans with 4 lug rims will fit...