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Old May 14, 2021 | 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by FuzzFace2
If your dads truck and the trailer is setup with brakes then yes.
No trailer brakes then no. Just because he has bone it before does not make it legal.
Have a crash, your fault or not and they find out the trailer brakes did not work and you could loose everything.
If you have the bucks for a race car you got money for trailer brakes or dont go racing!
I hate to be that way but the life you save might be mine or my family.

I have not used my car trailer in 6 years.
My F100 is a back up and I installed a controller as it is the right thing to do.
And yes I will go over my trailer before I need to use it, I know it will need tires because of age of them.
Dave ----
Understandable thats why i was trying to get the brakes figured out not trying to take somebody out towing or just driving in general want all the brakes i can get honestly. Actually found its a few f250s in junkyards around here, theyre 90-96s mostly. If they're willing to part with the whole front end and rear for less then $500 itll help solve my brake and bolt pattern problems.
I see those years have 12.56 rotors so thatll be about 1.5 extra on the rotors and dual piston calipers, and i believe i found a kit to get rear disc in the back with jb6 calipers i believe.
Are the f150 and f250 beams, radius arms, mounts and everything the same just the f250 stuff beefier?? I saw someone wanted drop beams and someone said they could use the 90s stuff to achieve that but would need everything since they use ball joints vs king pins i believe. But that was for f150 parts.
 
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Old May 14, 2021 | 04:09 AM
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Don't know if the 250 will bolt in or not?
You know someone has to be a first LOL

Yes I have seen it posted on the later 150 psrts bolting to early trucks.
This is for 2 reasons, you get rid of kingpins (80-83 trucks) for ball joints & they say better brakes IIRC.
Don't know what is better about them?
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