how can a person swap out drum brakes to disc brakes on a 1967 f-250. ive looked in a few mags, jegs, summit, lmc, and ford truck. no one has a kit for this. any help is greatful

 

I have a 67 f-100 and used the front disc breaks off of a 78 ford two wheel drive. I can't remember if an f-250 is different or not but these brakes work like a charm.

 

Big Frank: Search for details on this in the '61 - '66 forum. Be sure to read only what pertains to '65 and '66 trucks, because the '64 and earlier are not twin I-beams. Nothing you read about them will be useful for this project.
You will find it easiest and cheapest to buy a donor truck '73 - '79 and harvest the parts. You will use the calipers, master cylinder and power brake booster (if you go that route) for cores if the originals aren't new - and the cost of the cores will quickly add up.
Sell the other parts off the truck, and make your money back.
JoWilker took the entire I-beam assembly out, and put it under his '66. He unbolted the I-beams, upper spring retainers and radius arms from the frame, and bolted it back up. His is quite nice.
Others have done it with varyng measures of success - and some with the lack thereof.
Personally, when I do my '66, I will change out the drum bake spindles for the disc brake ones, leaving my I-beams in place.
You will need to use the master cylinder and proportioning valve for disc brakes. The ones on your truck now will not work.
You will need to re-route the brake lines most likely, so you may find it easier to use the donor's lines, if they are not rusted.
I have been evaluating the master cylinder pushrod length differences between the '67-'72 series and the '73-'79 trucks, and it looks like you may be able to use your master cylinder pushrod on the later master cylinder. I'm just estimating though, at this point. If this holds true, then you will have less work than those of us with earlier trucks.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

I thought 1969 and later camper specials had the disc brakes. Maybe if you find a 69 or 70 camper special you can grab all the parts of that truck. Good luck though. I swapped front discs from a 76 to my 67. I am bending up new lines right now but everything went well. Once you get this much steel moving, you had better be able to stop!

 

If you have the money to spend these guys make a great conversion kit, includes all you will need. You'll need ot bend you own brake lines, but you get itall including booster. www.mpbrakes.com. Or you can get a disc brake from a 73 - 79. You will want to grab the axle with spindles attached, steering linkage, and rotos and calipers from axle, as well as proportioning valve and brake switch. If you want power get the booster, master cyl, and pedal and pedal linkage as well. Then you'll need to replace just about everything with new parts, and use this parts for core.

You can grab just the spindles from a 73-79, but on your truck (67) the steering linkage (tie rod end) wont quite fit the spindle stops properly on a 73 -79, so youll need ot eitehr use different steerinling lnkage (this is why i said take the whole axle setup frm a bove), or grind of 1/8 of an inch on the new spindle (from 73-79), so that your 67 tie rod fits flush on it.

Research this site for awhile and you'll find what you need. I have a list of stuff, and prices if your interested. Seems with replacing msot things, and doing all the little extras, for like new steering and power brakes with disc its about 600. I dont compromise on brakes, with a fuel tank behind my back .

There is another site that has a good tech papaer on this with pics, but I wont refer you there as the FTE owners, and this site, dont like each other, but perhaps you cna find it on google, it has a nice breakdon of how to do it. This site has one as well. The other one is better tho.

 

I did the same conversion on my 69 F-100. Used a 79 Bronco as the donor vehical, and took everything including the front diff(had the same gearing) to bolt on. It went very well, and I borrowed lots of other parts off the same donor vehical before finally selling what was left for parts and scrap iron. I've seen one ton Fords of the 67-72 variety with disc brakes on the front end as well. Shouldn't be to hard to come up with a donor truck. The 73-79 series should work just fine as well. I'd also recommend taking the brake vacuum booster off a one ton truck, as it's much beefier than the 3/4 ton and down models.