Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
I have the Stainless Steel Brakes (SSBC) conversion on my 74.
A ton of work, even with the kit. You have to machine the axle flanges down, which the instructions make no mention of. You have to shim out the calipers, again the instructions make no mention of. The instructions do even explain how to properly bleed the brakes!
The brake hoses included in the kit suck. The parking brake doesn't really work and so on.
If you know what you are doing you should be able to adapt your own calipers. If I had known the kit would have been so shoddily prepared I would have gone this route.
All you really need are rotors drilled to your bolt pattern and calipers and then fabricate your own brackets and splash shield.
I am pretty happy with the rear disk set-up because I do notice a difference in mountain driving and highway type use.
I am just not happy with the workmanship of a "kit"
Josh
A ton of work, even with the kit. You have to machine the axle flanges down, which the instructions make no mention of. You have to shim out the calipers, again the instructions make no mention of. The instructions do even explain how to properly bleed the brakes!
The brake hoses included in the kit suck. The parking brake doesn't really work and so on.
If you know what you are doing you should be able to adapt your own calipers. If I had known the kit would have been so shoddily prepared I would have gone this route.
All you really need are rotors drilled to your bolt pattern and calipers and then fabricate your own brackets and splash shield.
I am pretty happy with the rear disk set-up because I do notice a difference in mountain driving and highway type use.
I am just not happy with the workmanship of a "kit"
Josh
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
Write me at pha7env(No Email Addresses In Posts!). I have some friends that will do a disk conversion on your truck for about 500instlled, or sell you a kit for 400. They have found that the emergency brake calipers are much more expensive and function marginally at best. an option for extra brakes, or emergency brakes if you go with rear disks is to install a drivelin disk brake. there are some kits out that i can steer you toward or you can make it yourself with a flanged driveshaft.
Also, i read some comments you made on places to get resto parts and would really love to chat. i'm currently restoring a 88 crewcab 4wd f-250 and need door and window seals, trim, etc. thanks, i'll be listening.
robert jones
pha7env(No Email Addresses In Posts!)
camden, alabama
Also, i read some comments you made on places to get resto parts and would really love to chat. i'm currently restoring a 88 crewcab 4wd f-250 and need door and window seals, trim, etc. thanks, i'll be listening.
robert jones
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camden, alabama
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-Nov-02 AT 12:54 PM (EST)]this guy did it on his Dog, oh, i mean Dodge (same thing right?) but he wrote a really good instruction set and posted it on the web. i am going to do it soon as i have done most of my cars and really is much better. the conversion this guy does has an e-brake (which is required by DOT and most states for street use) and seems to work well. the parts he uses are cheap and i priced it all for just over 200. the only part i don't like about his swap is he welded the mounts to the rearend housing. on all of the conversions i have done i simply used the stock backing plate mounting holes and some spacers to bolt the mounts on but i make two plates and overlap the cut out section. here are the links to the dodge conversion and to my tbird webpage (you can see how i make my mounts and bolt them on. it would work exactly the same on the big rearends as well). hope this helps, hawkrod
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
>Write me at pha7env(No Email Addresses In Posts!). I have some friends that will
>do a disk conversion on your truck for about 500instlled, or
>sell you a kit for 400. They have found that the emergency
>brake calipers are much more expensive and function
>marginally at best. an option for extra brakes, or emergency
>brakes if you go with rear disks is to install a drivelin
>disk brake. there are some kits out that i can steer you
>toward or you can make it yourself with a flanged
>driveshaft.
>
>Also, i read some comments you made on places to get resto
>parts and would really love to chat. i'm currently restoring
>a 88 crewcab 4wd f-250 and need door and window seals, trim,
>etc. thanks, i'll be listening.
>robert jones
>pha7env(No Email Addresses In Posts!)
>camden, alabama
I sent you an e-mail.
>do a disk conversion on your truck for about 500instlled, or
>sell you a kit for 400. They have found that the emergency
>brake calipers are much more expensive and function
>marginally at best. an option for extra brakes, or emergency
>brakes if you go with rear disks is to install a drivelin
>disk brake. there are some kits out that i can steer you
>toward or you can make it yourself with a flanged
>driveshaft.
>
>Also, i read some comments you made on places to get resto
>parts and would really love to chat. i'm currently restoring
>a 88 crewcab 4wd f-250 and need door and window seals, trim,
>etc. thanks, i'll be listening.
>robert jones
>pha7env(No Email Addresses In Posts!)
>camden, alabama
I sent you an e-mail.
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
Is it possible to retrofit some rear discs from a later model Ford SUV (Expedition) on the back of the older trucks?
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
Not really. The newer trucks use a different spacing on the lugs. I am going to use front rotors for my truck on the rear, along with Toyota calipers. I know it sounds kinda goofy, but looks like it will work, and is way cheaper than drums, shoes, hardware and wheel cylinders that it needs.
Jared
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Brett Foote
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Rear Disc Brake Conversion.
is your rear a dana 60? if it is you can go to the site http://www.off-road.com/4x4web/ford/bigbroncos/tech/reardisc/e for a start. there is also a company called tsm that has a list of parts you can use from a junk yard. hope that helps
