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Ah yeah, deff on the drum parking brake. I was looking at the EGR conversion and I like their setup. You lose a lot of surface coverage though on the disk brakes. They to offer a larger caliper with strong clamping power. Something to look into;

http://www.egrbrakes.com/index-main.htm

bobva

LLs leak fluid back it to the master.

Next thing you know your truck is on top you, hopefully your not on the boat ramp.

BILTIT

Line locks are electrical (not a legal emergency brake) and not designed for continous duty.

I have thought about a hand valve for the hydraulic system but it isnt really legal not being a secondary system.

I did a disk conversion on y old chevy and they work well but it was an auto so no ebrake wasnt a big deal. I wouldnt even think about a disk conversion on a manual without a stout, reliable ebrake system.

maybe368

I have the egr kit on mine and if you apply the parking brake normally, it is kind of a weak hold. If you apply the truck brakes while setting the parking brake, it holds like all getout. I tested it by applying the p-brake and putting it in gear to see it will move and it does not move at all when the p-brake is set this way. As far as launching my boat, I always turn off the engine and leave it in gear with the p-brake. The ramp that I use into the Sea of Cortez is a bit iffy and the truck would be plain gone if it goes into the sea. Most of the time there is a guy with a tractor that will put you in and take you out for about 20 bucks, well worth it to not have to dip your rear end in salt water...Mark

thrashingcows

I did a Dis brake conversion on my 8 3/4 in my old 68 Chrysler wagon. It uses this type of caliper. It took me a lot of time, and effort, to finally get the calipers set up properly so the E-brake would work.

I too would prefer an internal drum E-brake system on a rear disc conversion.

MARF75

What about a Mico lock, like is used on big trucks and heavy equipment.
Apply the brake pedal, through the lever on the Mico lock and then release the pedal and your brakes are set. They are used as parking brakes to indefinitely hold 20k plus pounds, I think they would hold our tiny, little 7k pound trucks.
I know this has been discussed before.

GLHS

Why not just find a factory disk braked Dana 70 or 80 from a 2001.5 or 2002 and sell your original to offset the cost?

Thats what I did. E- brake works fine.

Has been in for about 5 years now.

bobva

Did not know about that set up untill about 3 hours ago.

looked on CL found 1 with in a mile for me. Ill look at it Tomorrow.

bobva

Got one question can I remove the brakes off the dana 80 and put them on my dana 71

bobva

Never mind found this https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...d.php?t=305318

The D80 I found is 3.55 open.

That means LSD install and find a D60 3.54 for the front end.

To bad someone didnt make a adapter.