Liberty Rear Disk Brakes for A-Body
Dont tell my Cuda that....it seams pretty happy with the cherokee discs on its 8.75.
Pics? Could probably be done to tapered bearing axles with similar machining as is done to the liberty stuff
YEARS AGO are the 2 key words in that statement. The green bearings have been updated and a lot of people are running them on a lot of cars in a lot of different situations without issue. Ask Cass (Dr. Diff) about them.
Maybe don't ask the guy selling them.
I would be good to have some solid information on Green Bearings. Especially how the design changed to improve bearing life. Having a product fail early in its introduction is bad for image. So my experience Early On keeps me from even thinking about them. I would also like Richard Ehernberg's input before I would consider them in any application.
He'll tell you straight up: great for drag -only.
As for Ehrenberg, while I think he definitely has made some really useful contributions, I personally don’t blindly trust his opinions without an independent fact check after his whole “ball joint overangling” BS in his “disk-o-tech” article about using the F/M/J/B/R spindles on an A body. It was total speculation on his part, and he published it without ever bothering to check the actual suspension geometry that results.
Generally agree with you but in the ORIGINAL article, he was clear that they might but it was unproven.
And given the availability of parts then, there was no reason to scrounge fmj stuff. Nowadays, I still wouldn't use FMJ because I'm a purist but impirical evidence is hard to argue with.
Regarding the liberty swap, I don't like machining the mount that thin but if it's forged it's probably ok. I realize it sees only torsional load, but that's still pretty thin. I have wide offset axles for bbp and fmj rear drums and wonder if I could go thicker on that flange.
I don't like the hokey e'brake setup and don't see why they could just drill a hole in the liberty linkage arm, and I don't car for the lack of hoses. Couldn't you just use the liberty hose and adapt it to hard line somewhere along the axle?
I do like the Mopar bloodline, commonly available parts, and 24 pound weight saving (hellloooooo drilled and slotted rotors? )
Any one else heard any simple walk around these problems?
