9" Disk brake conversion parking brake
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Laughing Gas
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9" Disk brake conversion parking brake
I was looking at a 9" disk brake conversion kit from Summit that comes with 2 parking brake cables, can anyone tell me if this connects to the the rest of the stock cable OK and how does this type of conversion work OK?
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Laughing Gas
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One reason that I dd not do a disk rear when I built the truck is I did not know how well the emergency/parking brake worked, I insist on having a operational parking/emergency brake
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IMO high end shoes, good adjustment and proper bleeding and assembly for your rear drums will give you all the brake you need on the back end. Plus if you set that parking brake it will hold.
Good luck!
Good luck!
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Laughing Gas
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I may just stick with what I have, not sure yet
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I would have to agree with the super moderator here. Strictly being a voice of reason, our trucks typically weigh under 3500 pounds, have in excess of a 60% front weight bias, and over 60% of the braking is done by the front brakes. Our trucks are rarely ever used for any kind of heavy duty or load bearing work. Rear discs in our applications are 90% for show, rather than go, or non-go, as the case may be. There's a lot of other places one can drop a grand that would be of far better benefit, imho. YMMV.
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I would have to agree with the super moderator here. Strictly being a voice of reason, our trucks typically weigh under 3500 pounds, have in excess of a 60% front weight bias, and over 60% of the braking is done by the front brakes. Our trucks are rarely ever used for any kind of heavy duty or load bearing work. Rear discs in our applications are 90% for show, rather than go, or non-go, as the case may be. There's a lot of other places one can drop a grand that would be of far better benefit, imho. YMMV.
thanks for that, my truck never hales much more than a couple lawn chairs and a cooler.
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