The dart has rear disc brakes. Wahoo!!!!
I know what you are thinking. Not another 9" conversion. As most of you know when I got my dart it was a hack job basket case. I have kind of went overboard with the rearend and suspension and abody 8 3/4 rears don't exacly grow on trees around here.
The rear brakes are from a ford exploder 8.8 rear that I pulled at the salvage yard for $40. The rear end is a big bearing 9", detroit locker and 3.89 gears are parts that I already had for another project. I narrowed the rearend myself and just got the axles yesterday from dutchman. So far so good. I did have to do some modifying to the retaining plate and enlarge the disc rotor to clear the axles on the lathe at work. The cool thing about this set up is that it uses a single parking brake cable that I can just tie in to my exsisting cable on the drivers side. It also has the parking brake assembly inside of the rotor. Well what do you think?
I know what you are thinking. Not another 9" conversion. As most of you know when I got my dart it was a hack job basket case. I have kind of went overboard with the rearend and suspension and abody 8 3/4 rears don't exacly grow on trees around here.
The rear brakes are from a ford exploder 8.8 rear that I pulled at the salvage yard for $40. The rear end is a big bearing 9", detroit locker and 3.89 gears are parts that I already had for another project. I narrowed the rearend myself and just got the axles yesterday from dutchman. So far so good. I did have to do some modifying to the retaining plate and enlarge the disc rotor to clear the axles on the lathe at work. The cool thing about this set up is that it uses a single parking brake cable that I can just tie in to my exsisting cable on the drivers side. It also has the parking brake assembly inside of the rotor. Well what do you think?