disc to drum brakes
 

yeah that's right...

i want to run drums in the rear so i can run a 15" wheel with a lot of backspacing.

i'm just trying to get an idea on how straight forward this swap will be.
i'll be swapping from one truck to another and vice versa. (ecsb and rcsb)

thanks,
lance

Let me know, I will give you my Drums for your disc. Would they even fit?

i already have someone local that will do the swap with me.

You bastard:punch:

Be ready to hate life, these drums get out of round constantly. I haven't had the time to try to swap mine out. Let me know how painless or painful it was.


Erick

stay with disk and just grind yor calipers..i ground mine over a year ago and had no problems...compared to disk brakes drums can be a pain in the ass to change the shoes..i went and looked at mine and you will need to take the whole back plate off as it looks like caliper bracket bolts to the backing plate..will also have to swap the emergency brakes too..cable lengths could be different..

i hear ya tyler.
like i said, the main reason i want to go with drums is so i can run a lot of backspacing (some wheres around 6.5" bs or more if i can)

with the disc brakes it will be hard to do b/c there's the bango bolt that comes into play. here's the stock 16x7 wheel that has a 5.2" bs and +31mm offset. between the wheel and bango bolt there is 1" of clearance.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/DSC00641.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/DSC00642.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/DSC00646.jpg

I love my drums. Makes it a lot easier to pull axles etc. when working on the rear. Besides, rear shoes typically last 100,000 miles or so.

dang
i just noticed this is the dodge section.

mods, could you move this to the correct gm section.
thanks

^helllooo!

Did you ever do the swap? If so how did it go and do you like it?