Drum to disc brake upgrade
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Drum to disc brake upgrade Part 1
Sterling 10.25 Axel
1997 F350 Rear drum brake to disc conversion and e-brake installation
Lugnut 4x4
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Looks like a pretty hokey kit, but then again all the kits look that way. Not that you had much choice. Seeing this video makes me happy that I di what I did. I just finished converting my '86 f 250 to disc using a factory ford setup from a 2005 f 250. It took some doing but looks completely factory and when parts are needed in the future they will be easy to find. The stopping power is light years better than the drums!
Once i figured out how it all went together with some mods, it works great. I think the rear pads are a little small for the weight but still work's better than factory.
There is a lot easier way to do it than this kit that uses E350 rotors that just slip right on. You still use Chevy calipers, but all parts are readily available at any parts store. You also get to keep the obs 8-lug bolt pattern, it is a complete bolt on and the install ran me less than $300.00.
@@mikehenry4743 The E 350 rotors are also identical in every other way to the F 350 rotors so work just right with the OEM Ford parts. These are what I used on my conversion. This way I have all factory Ford parts including parking brakes , cables, calipers etc. and still have the original 8 x 6.5" bolt pattern. There were a few obstacles I had to overcome but the results are really good.
@mikehenry4743 what is different to run the ford parts?
@@carllee31 The earlier Sterling axles with the drum brakes use a larger hub so you won't have the clearance needed for the parking brake shoes unless you machine down the hub to clear them , plus you'll need to use a replacement shoe return spring kit for clearance, then after that you'll need to do some clearancing of the shoes themselves. This is what I had to work with on my '86 F-250, maybe other year hubs could be a better fit? Not sure .
I’m trying to do this to my 1996 dodge ram Cummins great video
I'm sure if I had the correct kit from the start my swap would have been much easier. Thanks for watching
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Great video
Did the guy do like most customers? When you told him he ordered the wrong parts and will cost more in labor?
I always get some difficult jobs due to the parts, and I always charge accordingly if needed.
Oh hell no it's not to late to throw that crap back in the box and go to the junkyard and get all the disc brake parts from a later truck. That kit doesn't have a disc brake master cylinder or prop valve, also an off road kit is code word for half baked.
I have recently put in a rearend from a 2001 with the factory disc brakes. Works great and was way easier.
those are 1970's cadi Elderado stock brackets with parking brake feature inside the piston .
I have been looking for the same eldorado calipers, and they are expensive even on rockauto
So is it a bolt on kit or weld on? You didn't even talk about what you ended up doing. Looks like you welded the "bolt on" brackets to the axle tube.
It should have been a bolt on kit. I ended up welding it on because the fit was wrong.
i just did my disk convertion on my 94 idi and i was just wondering if your brake pads came with any hardware. mine didnt and im curious if i need it or not
I don't think the pads had any hardware. Just the caliper had some.
@barnyardmechanic3622 okay. Thanks for the reply. Was just curious cuz another brake pads I've installed have either those retainer clips or those metal tabs to keep the pads off the rotors
@@barnyardmechanic3622 did you upgrade your master and install a adjustable proportioning valve or just leave it stock?
@FunEggs I left everything stock for now but have plans to replace the proportioning valve for an adjustable one.
@@barnyardmechanic3622 okay cool thanks man appreciate it!
wow, thats not a very good conversion kit. Thank you for showing all of us out here.
thats a 10.25 sterling Axle , i have one on my 1995 f350
Hold the sticker up again so i will know what kit NOT to buy !!!!!
Ugh. All the bumbling through the project with the wrong parts, making mistakes & iterations and some obvious poor judgements with studs and whatnot.....right down to welding crap on in the end instead of getting the right stuff. We've all made mistakes- lots of em. But why put a video with all that on RUclips? What was your objective in doing that?
That would be a good video NOT to post. Consider that a lot of people use RUclips videos as how-to's (whether they should or not), and that this video will probably send some folks down the wrong road making some of the same mistakes- unless they do watch the entire 1/2 hr video and discover that their takeaway should be to NOT do things this way. You can do what you want of course, but this video will probably make trouble with anyone that tries to follow your lead. That said, congrats on pushing through to the finish line :)
I like to put out videos that are a success or a fail. That is how life is and the struggles are real. I hope someone will be able to take some good and bad from this video.
yeah brackets are bolt on