70 5 lug disc brake thread

[lolife99]

Like it was said earlier,... if you have the wider axle and the correct '70 numbers, (if there is such a thing. I don't know),... that fact would be diluted with the ability to put 71-72 5-lug axles in that housing.
(do the 71-72 housings have their own numbers? Anyone know?)

This subject still interests me alot.
Back in 1979 I had my '71 Chevelle SS in a body shop in my home town.
A guy that worked there, spent all weekend swapping the rearend, and all the disc brake stuff from another employees '71 Cheyenne,... to his '70 lwb 6-lug truck.
He did all of this work,... because the two employees decided to trade wheels.
It was an even swap.
Seemed crazy at the time.
But somewhere there is a '71 Cheyenne with 6-lug (4 wheel) drum brakes,... and a '70 lwb truck with factory 5-lug 71-72 suspension.
There were no aftermarket axles back then.
No disc brake conversion companies.

I witnessed it,... or I would never believe someone would go to all that trouble.