After having them on a tractor trailer you'll see why the popularity is rapidly growing.
Drums flat out suck for braking performance amd maintenance as compared to Disc brakes.
My trailer brakes have been upgraded to 8-5/8" drums (Stock is 7") with 30k custom linings (stock is 20k) and they finally stop like discs but are still terrible at shedding heat and are so much heavier.
Discs stop like you're driving a modern car and you can change pads in 20 minutes or less when needed.
Disc Brake Conversion??
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Never had any of our trucks prior working in mud daily have a single issue with the Disc brake setup.
Not doubting maybe somebody has had something happen but discs and mud bogger trucks, off road vehicles go for decades and this is the first I've heard this complaint about mud.
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Maybe the tech has gotten better in the last decade but 15+ years ago you could not give away a truck with air disc brakes. Nobody wanted them.KB3MMX and Another Canadian driver Thank this. -
The only way it make financial sense to me is if you get a good deal on low mileage axles. To piece it together would be super expensive. When I got my new trailer last year I wanted disk but there just weren’t any available on the lot and it’s like a $5k upgrade when ordering a trailer.
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I spent some money over the years trying to improve the drum set up it had. But nothing compares to having disks there now.
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