Disc brakes from 79 cordoba on a 74 scamp??

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Hey guys i just came by a 79 cordoba on my local kijiji for sale and was wondering if the disc brakes off of it would work on my 74 scamp that has manual drums? If so will they bolt right up or need some adjustments?? thanks guys!!
 
thanks 6pk i had checked that thread out earlier and they were saying that they would work


Jim you say that these will work? I had talked to a few people that told me that they wouldn't and posted my question here to see what you guys said. Like they'll bolt right up? Thanks!!
 
They'll bolt on. Don't throw away your drum brake knuckles, people need those for the Viper brake conversion. 11.75 rotors and Viper calipers will bolt on the late model drum brake knuckles.
 
Like Andy said, they'll work. People say no because of the additional knuckle height, but it can be adjust to work fine.
 
hmm okay thanks for the help guys, i've been looking for a while to find a parts car to do a disc brake conversion along with some other parts with minimal success. thanks again
 
All the parts from a Doba or other late B body car will work.
 
I have a disc brake setup from a 77 Aspen for my 68 Valiant. All the parts will work but I need UCA's from a 73+ abody correct?
 
I do beileve that to be correct. Wait for a been there and done that guy.
 
you need the 73-76 UCA's (or Dr Diff's ball joint adapters) to use the F,M,J, late B spindles/disc brakes. You also need the 73-76 A body lower ball joint.
 
Pretty positive the lower ball joint is the same and it's only the upperthats different form the early disks to the lbp disks. Never once heard anything about changing a lower ball joint. And never had to change the lower ball joint.


Jeff
 
Pretty positive the lower ball joint is the same and it's only the upperthats different form the early disks to the lbp disks. Never once heard anything about changing a lower ball joint. And never had to change the lower ball joint.


Jeff

When converting my '66 Dart to '73-'76 A-body disc spindles, I did have to change out the lower ball joints, but the '73-'76 lower ball joints bolt right into the '66 lower control arms. The bolts holding the spindles to the ball joints aren't the same diameter, either, so I needed new bolts.
 
Pretty positive the lower ball joint is the same and it's only the upperthats different form the early disks to the lbp disks. Never once heard anything about changing a lower ball joint. And never had to change the lower ball joint.


Jeff

Lower BJ assembly is not the same, 100% sure. lower balljoint to spindle bolt spacing is the same on F/M/J late B and 73-up A. Both are a wider spacing than the 72-back A lower balljoint to spindle bolt spacing, so the 72-back LBJ assembly will not fit. All the LCA's use the same size tapered BJ stud.
 
Hey guys i just came by a 79 cordoba on my local kijiji for sale and was wondering if the disc brakes off of it would work on my 74 scamp that has manual drums? If so will they bolt right up or need some adjustments?? thanks guys!!
HI 74Scamp, regarding your Cordoba spindles, I have the same application already in place.. I have a 73 duster that came with drum fronts. I chunked the front drum spindles off a cliff at some environmentalists.. (just kidding I like air), now I read here that people want them.. The upper control arms accepted / already contained the large ball joint required for the factory disc spindle swap I am pretty sure all 73 up A-bodies have the required A arms and ball joints, regardless of drum or disc. The factory lower control arm accepted the stock "73 up A-body" lower ball joint for disc brakes (given), which will bolt directly to your Cordoba spindle(s). The bolt up / bolt hole alignment of the lower ball joint works perfectly using fine thread grade 8 bolts and nuts that you will have to measure the required length prior to picking them up at the locally owned hardware store Nuts are required because there are no threaded hole portions on either your spindle or lower ball joint in this application (use of locktite is probably typical on the threads). There is no rotor or spindle or lca interference regarding the bolt/ nut config. Like I mentioned, the upper ball joint remains stock for 73 up a-body (larger) and fits the Cordoba spindle. I did this exact swap using a 77 Cordoba with the 11.75 incher rotors, keep the caliper mounts with the spindles. Purchased new rotors and calipers at a local parts store for cheap. My caliper mounts are pin type which I hear may not be as desired because they flex more. My spindles had the calipers behind, so there is a longer brake hose required if yours have the same orientation. I have not had it on an alignment machine yet, but according to bigblockdart.com there are some minor changes to suspension geometry, some of which are beneficial and some of which may be very slightly less desired. Most of this info has been mentioned all different directions already, I just though I would chime in here.
 
Viper stuff bolts on with AR Engineering kit #AR011. Get it from Mancini Racing.

Cordoba parts go on any ABE car without any real issues. Early A body cars need to be set up for large ball joints. Also, the Cordoba pin type calipers really don't work that well with alternate brake line routing so either copy the factory setup or change calipers to something that works better.
 
I have done it!

I used 78 volare brake setup......same thing

if you have a pre 73 car then you need the 73+ big balljoint upper control arms.

All you need to do is bolt on the old style (A-body) lower ball joint to the newer style spindle. Then everything will bolt right onto your A-body.


Oh yea, keep the two lower ball joint assembly bolts from the A-body because they are different than the new style bolts.
 
I'm doing the swap on a 1973 Scamp (with 10" drums, if it matters), will I need to use the UCAs from my F-body or will the original A-body ones work?

Your 73 scamp has the good big ball joint upper control arms so they will be just fine.......you don't want to use F-body control arms at all. For people that have cars from 1972 on down, they need to switch their upper control arms to the 73-76 A-body upper control arms. (so they can have big upper ball joints)
 
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