Disc Brake Conversion??

Cars play the stop and go game all day. Brakes heat up, and no a one has a jake.

 

Carburators were the same way when fuel injection first came out. Took a while to adopt injection and the first fuel injection systems had some bugs to work out.

We're way past those days of Carburators and Drum brakes though.

 

Actually the biggest force right now is the W.E.F. and Schwab that's pushing this Elctra-Nazism.

Musk has become the Lefts enemy because he's not on board with all their craziness

 

Absolutely! They're far superior all around

 

I’ve never sat behind the wheel of a class 8 truck or trailer with disc, so I’m just going by others experience. I do know that not everybody that has had a disc brake truck or trailer like them. Now it may be older setups, but I know some have had maintenance issues with them. I do know a fire truck mechanic shop that rents from me have had lots of trouble with disc on the larger fire trucks. Granted, these could be older systems, and they generally have idiots driving them at the fire departments (they don’t have to have CDL or really much training at all).

All that being said, in my 30 years behind the wheel I find drums adequate. I’m not against disc, but I’m not sure I’d pay a big premium to get them on a truck or trailer.

 

I kept the original abs from the truck. The tone ring had the same number of teeth. Haven’t had any problem

 

Do you have disc on the steer? Do you need to change proportioning at all on disc? I'm looking to do this one axle at a time while I do other mods. I want to do a 6x2 conversion, starting with a disc lift/pusher, and eventually, upgrade the rear to a 23k locker with disc, and do the steer at some point. This is mostly all in theory given the cost. If I could guarantee fuel to be $10/gal for 5+ years I could justify it lol. I know...just spec a new truck...but I like my glider.

 

Nope same foot valve as before. First OTR truck I really drove was factored KW 680 with disks rear and drum fronts from the factory,

 

From what I’ve read over the years, disc brakes are more for high performance race cars, that do repeated braking than throttle, then braking again . They don’t fade as quickly as drum brakes do, given the same race circumstances. However , look at the surface area of a set of disc pads and compare them with the same truck with drum brakes . Much more surface area( stopping power) on the drums than discs. On a heavy truck, I wouldn’t even consider discs over drums!

 

Really? There's no comparison between the two on a heavy duty truck. Stopping distance with discs are way superior to drums, much safer option. Last a lot longer too. Drums have been obsolete for 50 years or longer.