I recently did this conversion on an original unmodified 1973 8.25 rear end housing.
All went really nice until I had a nasty little intermittent scraping sound that would come and go.
At first I thought the backing plate was too close to the rotor, so I got in there with a flat blade screwdriver and opened up the gap a bit (1/4 inch or so)
Still had the exact same intermittent metal to metal scraping sound, and even noticed a bit of metal dust on the wheel.
Found it.
In this picture a red...
A note about Cherokee disc brake swaps
