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drum to disc brake conversion... ... DONE pg 3 (no 56k)

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Old 10-13-2007, 11:14 AM
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Default drum to disc brake conversion... ... DONE pg 3 (no 56k)

I've been slowly working on converting my brakes to disc over the last month or so.

I'm upgrading the fronts too.

Fronts: Brembo slotted rotors with Bendix pads.
Rears: Brembo drilled rotors with Bendix pads.

Here's a pic of a pad in the front next to the new pads.
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The old:
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Lower control arms with with bushings finally sawzalled and chisled out:
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With new ES bushings:
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The rears readt to go one with some new Megan Racing Trailing Arm Bushings:
-I rebulit one caliper but had to replace the other. 5 bucks to rebuilt, 50 bucks to replace
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oh, AND I just got another new toy...
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Skunk2 Weighted Shift ****! I LOVE IT!! I found it on Craigslist for 20 bucks!!!

How she sits right now:
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:18 AM
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wow....looks good....gunna look sick with your rims.
 
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:24 AM
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Thanks!

Here's what I yet have to do:
-Replace driver's side front caliper
-Remove old trailing arms
-Put in new T-arms
-Connect the e-brake lines
-replace the proportioning valve with the "new" 4040 from a 94-01 tegi
-bleed the brakes
-break in the brakes
-beer

 
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:27 AM
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lol....well....i still have the 40/40 prop valve sitting on my desk...i might install it today..i dont know.......good luck man.....
 
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Old 10-13-2007, 12:25 PM
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ORIGINAL: danomatic93

Thanks!

Here's what I yet have to do:
-Replace driver's side front caliper
-Beer
-Remove old trailing arms
-Beer
-Put in new T-arms
-Beer
-Connect the e-brake lines
-Beer
-replace the proportioning valve with the "new" 4040 from a 94-01 tegi
-Beer
-bleed the brakes
-Beer
-Sober up
-break in the brakes
-Beer
-Beer

Fixed it for ya
 
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Old 10-13-2007, 12:45 PM
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lol
 
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Old 10-13-2007, 10:26 PM
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I like Fiirkan's plan a bit more..
 
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Old 10-14-2007, 08:25 PM
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Update:
I have switched to the impact gun, cause I need to. The driver's is coming out real nice. Just one more 3 more bolts on that side, two of which are holding on the e-brake cable, so only 1 hard one left. Now for the passenger's side I have 4 more bolts, two again for the e-brake, 1 for the trailing arm bushing and another stupid arm one.

Driver's side:
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Stupid control arm bolt:
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The only reason I only got this far was because I started late tonight and had to stop because of the noise. Neighbors suck when you have to get things done.

 
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Old 10-15-2007, 02:12 PM
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Nice man, Its going to be sucha difference after. Wile you have everything out and apart, you should get them sandblasted and powder coated, they will be just like new.
 
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Old 10-15-2007, 02:17 PM
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why does one of ur control arms look bent like crazy?
 


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