i saw on ebay someone advertising gm caliper brackets to fit early drum spindles $105, being cheap i built my own. sunday project I used stock 6 cyl spindles bought granada rotors and bearings at the local napa store bought some gm type calipers on ebay new pads made 6 threaded spacer bushings cut some plate in the shape of a J and cut some old aftermarket gm brackets to adapt i went with small piston steel units these might get grief from the tech man as they are but wouldnt those aluminum units from wilwood look sweet.
The ones from Wilwood aren't THAT expensive... I cant wait to get those things on the front of my car... they will look purty!!
materials I hope you used a high quality steel for the plates. There's lots of force and stress put on that part of the system. They have to be able to resist the calibers trying to rotate them around the rotor.
Ya stock Maverick steering , (stock drum spindles, , not I6 duh) Doesnt matter where they mount as long as you can bleed out the air. Heck brakes just slow ya down anyway.
mounting Actually it does matter where they mount. Due to the forces applied to the mounting itself. On the back, you're pushing against the mounting. On the front your pulling at it. Pulling will tear a weak mount at when you probably need it the most, like a panic stop. Manufactures have put a lot of research into what they do. They just don't mount things to make it easy to bleed the air out. I wish they did.
Actually its twisting no matter where its mounted. There is no push or pull. At least on this type caliper. Some calipers are over engineered and might need to be mounted a certain rotation but front or back would not make a difference.
