i am doing disc brake swap on my rear axle, and some day i want to get the blazer street worthy, do i have to use the eldorado calipers or is there another way that i can have a legal e-brake (line lock, pinion brake, etc.)?
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i am doing disc brake swap on my rear axle, and some day i want to get the blazer street worthy, do i have to use the eldorado calipers or is there another way that i can have a legal e-brake (line lock, pinion brake, etc.)?
You can use cadi calipers but hooking up the cables to them is a *****. I've only seen one guy do it succesfully and he welded a ****ing craftsman box end wrench to the lever to make it work somehow. A t-case output brake from high angle would be your best bet IMO, but you have to have a fixed rear output T-case and get the kit from High Angle.
looks like it's time to do that doubler brian
what did you use as a e-brake to get yours to pass inspection?Quote:
Originally Posted by afroman006
I have a high angle t-case e-brake but I havent gotten around to hooking it up, thus I have yet to get pigpen inspected.
I daily drove the blazer for a couple of years without an emergency break and for more than a couple with dual exhaust dumped before the rear axle without cats...
Ask around there should be places that will inspect them. There has to be a couple of places around with the abominations I've seen driving around.
The calipers we put on Kurt's yj worked good. He just hooked the factory cables to the calipers I think. I know there were no major mods required. Just welded the brackets on and bolted up the calipers. I'm not sure exactly what the calipers came from, I heard from a caddie, but I got them off my front porch.
I've always gotten the cruiser inspected at a place where I know the guy and they just slap a sticker on it, but when I took my truck to the quicker sticker place behind napa, all they did was check the actual brakes, horn, lights, and the gas cap so you might be able to get away with it. Everything I've read about the caddy brakes was that they were a PITA to get working and still didn't apply enough pressure to work well.
somewhere in the last week of checking out blazer sites, i found a guy pimping some brake stuff he was just coming out with. One of the deals was a handbrake that had its own mastercylinder to control a hydraulic emergency brake.
Supposedly it had some crap to avoid the bleed down of the hydraulics and apparently since it was a seperate hydraulic system it was legal for a handbrake.
It looked expensive though. I'll try to find the link tonight.
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Originally Posted by Snatch Adams
ehmmm, any luck on this???
Brian, hows it coming along BTW?
i dropped his 60 off wed to have the r & p set up at j and p. so when he gets back into town it looks like we are going to be doing the 60 and 52" swap as well as crossover and hydro assist. already have all of the parts
sweet, when do yall think you gonna be able to take her out on a test run?
i am hopping for a test run by the end of jan, but realistically it will be mid feb i think
I wouldnt bother with the 63's in the rear. Stick with 56's for the better departure angle.
Sweet. So you gonna have it ready for TCC then, right? I look forward to wheelin w/ this bad bitty.Quote:
Originally Posted by bcolman
Oh yeah, x2 on the 56"s, I have plenty of flex in them up front on da beast.
i never planed on using 63's in the rear, it flexes pretty well with the stock spring right now so i thing that i am going to stick with the 52's in the rear for now, and maybe later if i feel that they are hindering me then i will switch to the 56'sQuote:
Originally Posted by afroman006
Ah, misunderstood what Andrew said earlier.
I can't believe sharpe didn't hit on the "fact" that 52's flex as good as 56's w/ less axle wrap. This is a "fact" is well documented, just as anybody on texas4x4 or pbb. :D
i got the front 60 installed today, now all i have to do is the steering (which i should get done on Monday) so it will be out on the trail again
i finished up the steering and installed my winch, and took it out to 47 a few weeks ago, it did well but needed lower gears, so now i have to install my klune and 205 that i picked up this week, and button up some other things in time for trees.
wow, klune, 205 and a 60. this things turning into a beast. why the bent drag link?
clearance?
Looks like you gonna be Big Time. -pimp-
whats the gears in the axles?
so it doesnt hit my oil panQuote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
4.10Quote:
Originally Posted by william_ace
Is that an ORD draglink? Thats what I had on pigpen first but since I dont have a factory engien crossmember I am able to run a straight one. What pitman arm do you have?
he got it from diy4x or ord i can't remember, i think it is from a ford van or something like that
i got the klune and 205 in and finished the new cross member today, i also trimmed the rear fenders some, now all i need to do is finish up my hydro assist and finish trimming up the front fenders, and maybe some exhaust work
:gigem:
david or goliath?
got cage?
no (i don't think)
just cab
goliathQuote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
it came with a roll bar racing cage thing and if i have time i am going to tie it in to the frame, if not then i have the cab and roll bar thing if i roll itQuote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
i stand correctedQuote:
Originally Posted by bcolman
do you have any current pictures of this thing?
ill get some when i get home from the library
did you get lost in the stacks????
:flipoff2:
i just got home 30 minutes ago, and since it is dark the pictures will suck so i will post some tomorrow when i should have the hydro assist done or close to it to post also
ya ****in tease.....
here are some pictures, today has been slow because of the rain and lask of space in my garage to work on my stuff cause my brother takes up most of it, but i do have everything for my rear drive shaft i just need to weld it up and then i will get the hydro stuff done later this week