Swapping drums to disc brakes

Different axle housings, hubs and spindles.

 

Steer is "cheap" quoted about 3 or 4 k a few years ago, probably get cheaper if you just replace with used axle with discs and sell your steer axle.

The drives... someone was working on a quote for me and i just stopped em when they got to about 12k estimate, at that point may as well stretch frame with a donor that already had discs.

 

Correct, steers its not terrible on an old truck thats due for a front end rebuild, but drives, never worth the swap, the difference in build from factory is about 1k iirc

 

With all the wrecked trucks, how much is it just to buy the used running gear at a junkyard and swap it in?

 

In the Chicago area you might be lucky to find a truck that hit a bridge. I wouldn't touch a running gear that was involved in a run off road or rollover.

 

Found a 60k mile freight liner disk brake cut off for under $4k replaced the 1million mile back half over a couple weeks…….

priceless!!!!