Western Maine saying good morning

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I've got a 1st gen 2005 Sport Trac 4wd XLT. If I remember right, I purchased it in 2007, so I have owned it for a number of years and always liked it. Although I also own a fairly recent F150 I have hung on to the Sport Trac. More than two years ago while doing my brakes etc. I discovered that the rear brake mounting plates were in tough shape, and like many of you discovered that these are most difficult if not impossible to locate. In my part of the country where the state and local towns use that lousy liquid salt brine any chance of finding good used local parts would likely be extremely low.

Nevertheless, my Sport Trac sleeps in the garage rear axles pulled hoping to locate my backing plates. There is not enough good material to weld, and I wonder sometimes if there was a way to apply fiberglass maybe reinforced with a thin disc of steel to the backside of the plates to get me going. So far, I have resisted so I can show anybody that might help just what they looked like originally.

I have even asked local metal fabricators if they could make the plates, but because it's a stamped item they decline.

So, thanks for allowing me to join and read your posts hopefully contribute something myself.