Here is a brief run down (with photos) of my drum-to-disc brake upgrade project. Car came stock with drum brakes, and up front were the 10" discs. The fronts were upgraded in 2007 with a custom C4HD kit built by Ed Miller onto some 2" drop-spindles I had. the front setup is a PBR caliper with DS 13" rotors and braded lines, etc.
the new rear setup (photos below) is a 12" DS rotor, same PBR caliper, braided flex lines, parking brake modification, etc.. also built by Ed. He does great work and everything was spot on. Thanks Ed. it came with a proper disc/disc Proportioning valve too
i also bought a long main brake line for under the car (from in-line tube)
it came with a proper disc/disc Proportioning valve too . i removed the old one and took a photo, the new one was then installed. it is pictured in the first photo of this post
here are the old nasty drum brakes:
and they were removed ( the rest of the parts were already tossed away when i took this photo)
axles out
as you can tell from the photos, thea rear axle housing was pretty nasty. i took a few wire wheels on my electric drill and ground that sucker down to get all the grease, grime, and flash rust off of it.
only
after pulling out the axle bearings and seals (which were really in there!)
then hit it with some metal primer. yes brown i know, but its primer
brown. ugh. but not for long...
and then painted it satin black
new brackets to hold calipers now mounted onto axle
just a pic i liked
so, unfortunately I DO have the project completed, but my phone isnt communicating with my computer all of a sudden and the rest of my photos with rotors, calipers, brake lines etc are all on my phone.. im going to look into repairing this tomorrow and then i will finish this all up.
just wanted to share
stay tuned for the next round of photos when i get them to load up to the computer