Re: drum to disk upgrade was Re: Brake Upgrade

From: Andy Levy (andy.levy@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2011 - 20:55:07 EST


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 18:23, ffastje <ffastje@cox.net> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/2011 5:02 PM, M.B. wrote:
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>>
>> Depends on what year truck you have.  When they went to the 12" brakes in
>> what, 2003? I think that was about as big as you could get.
>>
>> I personally would rather convert to discs on the rear as my drums are my
>> limiting factor.  They lock up long before the fronts do and the ABS kicks
>> in hard.  I think my drums need replacing here pretty soon though.
>>
>> On 1/30/2011 2:56 PM, BOBBY wrote:
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>>> i was thinking about going up in rotor / caliper size
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:31 PM, David Gersic wrote:
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>>>> On Sunday 30 January 2011 12:59:31 you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone here done a front brake ugrade? Larger rotors / Calipers?
>>>>
>>>> How much upgrade are you looking for? I swapped to Brembo rotors with
>>>> Hawk pads and have been very happy with them.
>>>
>>
>>
> I would like to know whats involved to upgrade the drums to disk TIA

Find a donor '03-'04?



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