Liberty Rear Disk Brakes for A-Body
Why is it the “green bearings” get the blame for all kinds of stuff and yet the most “useable rear known to man, the ferd 9 inch” uses a green bearing style bearing and people love those rears?
Sorry, just have to ask.
Because there really was a design problem with the “first generation” of the green bearings. And because guys like Ehrenberg
STILL tell people they put their “lives in danger” running green bearings even though that’s been total BS since the redesigned bearings came out well over a decade ago.
The write up Cass did that I linked in post #16 explains that, which also explains how the bad rap was initially earned.
High res picture album of both articles.
Careful with the copyright laws posting that. It’s not like posting the old articles while the magazine was defunct.
Sadly I bought both magazines, what a rip off. Not at all impressed with that brake conversion, the amount of machining that has to be done seems like it would really weaken that mount. Now OE stuff usually has a pretty big safety factor built in, but I think going down to .1”, given what the factory put there, is probably pushing some luck. They don’t show the finished mount after it’s machined in much detail though, hard to tell.
And the cable mount/conversion they did is pretty amateur. I mean I’m sure it’ll work, but what they published looks like the shade tree shortcut version, not the version I’d expect to see published in a magazine. That’s one of those things I would have expected to see made custom for the article and then short cut by guys doing it themselves in their garage to save some time/money. Instead the magazine did the short cut and left folks that want a better thought out solution to find it for themselves. Kinda weak.
This topic is getting beat to death. Bet we can get 87 more post to this. And still get nowhere.
What we really need is a few more people to try it and post their findings. The article seems to gloss over some pretty important details of the installation.
