brake upgrade

daveheld

Registered User
I have a T bird with rear drum brakes - I would like to upgrade it to rear disc brakes... I see two paths to reaching this goal :

1. purchase rear spindles drilled for mounting calipers

2. drill / machine my spindles to accept the Tbird calipers.


the first option is the most direct, and likely least expensive for a one-time deal, but since I see nothing but drum brake spindles in the wrecking yards, I'm inclined to invest in the tooling to make a few sets of these at a time.

What are your views of the marketability of machining rear spindles to accept rear disc brakes?

Other than machining the spindles, are there any other issues I need to be aware of to accommodate calipers / rotors for rear brakes?

any comments / suggestions are welcome.
dave
Cocoa Beach FL
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I'm not sure there would be a very big market for people wanting to have their rear spindles machined to accept the disc brakes. The disc brake spindles should be fairly readily available through either this board or on tccoa. It it were me I'd just look for someone on one of these boards that is parting a rear disc brake car out and pirate all of the parts from that. I haven't looked at a drum brake spindle in eons, but are there locators on the spindle for the holes?

You may have also seen it, but there is a write up in the tccoa technical articles section written by Brian Herron that shows the drum to disc swap if you decide to buy a setup from a disc brake car.
 
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