using the forward drums backing plate in the direct drum?

[JDSfastGN]

I'm just wondering if this is common practice or if there are any downsides that I don't know about. I bought an aluminum "apply plate", to replace the crappy apply ring in the bottom of the drum. This in turn has left a little more room and I decided to try and shove another clutch in there. I used two .077 thick steels along with the rest being standard thickness as well as a backing plate from a spare forward drum. I have achieved .038 clearance using these but wasn't sure whether there was a downside to using the forward backing plate(since it is thinner). I figured since only a couple of the steels are slightly thinner that nothing would be adversly affected heat wise compared to if i had just used all thinner steels to acheive an extra clutch. Hope it will work. Thanks guys.

 

[JDSfastGN]

anybody have an opinion on this?

 

[JDSfastGN]

Ok, well im gonna go ahead and run it, for future reference if somebody does a search, im wrong on which backing plate is thinner. Apparently at some point in my trannys life I used the thicker forward clutch backing plate in the directs to tighten them up. Not remembering this I assumed what I removed was the original and when i found a spare backing plate that was slightly thinner i assumed it was out of a forward drum, when in fact it was the original for the directs. Have a merry Christmas