14 Bolt disk brake setup with parking brake

[1979jimmy350]

Having a manual and wanting to loose my drum brakes i am left with a decision to make, loose the parking brake, use caddy calipers or a drive line ebrake. I choose to take a different route, i am going to use the drum in hat style that GM uses on its newer trucks with factory disk brakes in the rear.

So i have started to collect parts for this swap

This is all the main part needed they are the factory parts for a 2009 chevy truck with a 10.5 or 11.5 rear axle.


The back side of the parking brake assembly and caliper mount


The massive 2 Piston Caliper this is the same one used on the front of new half ton trucks


Brand new 14 bolt hub

I was lucky and got this stuff where i work for free, but just for fun i priced it out at a GM dealer and holy crap for one rotor they wanted $425 so this is well over $2000 worth of parts at GM dealer price

The flange on the newer 14 bolts is larger and closer to the hub than the older ones with drums, I have gathered the dimensions off the blue prints for the two different tubes and am going to design a spacer/adapter so i can bolt this directly to my 70's 14 bolt.

 

[kgblazerfive]

Looks like a good idea I had thought about doing this before but with the 2k price tag a little to high for my taste. Of course the day I really need a e-brake I'm going to wish I had it

 

[uao85]

subscribed definitely.

I have been thinking about this lately, but unfortunately thinking is all I will be doing for quite some time since I dont have alot of money laying around. A good friend of mine just finished his rear disc swap on his tricked out 72 camaro with a 12 bolt moser rear. He just got all the brake hardware from a 2000 transam, only he got the whole axle for $100...yeah that would be nice. Anywho, he is basically doing the same think right now and since he has a 4th gen camaro console, his setup will be all plug and play. Im jealous... From what he has told me, the drum and hat style parking brake works very well and is pretty easy to setup as long as you have all the parts there and where they go. He said he cant even budge the tires(he has a 700+hp small block), so that is enough convincing for me that they work well.

One question, I do have a junkyard local to me that has a late model 8 lug semi floating axle in a light duty 2500 chevy pickup. How similar do you guys imagine this setup would be to one found on a 14 bolt??

Remington

 

[1979jimmy350]

subscribed definitely.

I have been thinking about this lately, but unfortunately thinking is all I will be doing for quite some time since I dont have alot of money laying around. A good friend of mine just finished his rear disc swap on his tricked out 72 camaro with a 12 bolt moser rear. He just got all the brake hardware from a 2000 transam, only he got the whole axle for $100...yeah that would be nice. Anywho, he is basically doing the same think right now and since he has a 4th gen camaro console, his setup will be all plug and play. Im jealous... From what he has told me, the drum and hat style parking brake works very well and is pretty easy to setup as long as you have all the parts there and where they go. He said he cant even budge the tires(he has a 700+hp small block), so that is enough convincing for me that they work well.

One question, I do have a junkyard local to me that has a late model 8 lug semi floating axle in a light duty 2500 chevy pickup. How similar do you guys imagine this setup would be to one found on a 14 bolt??

Remington

The setup shown is the factory disk setup for GM full float axles. If you got the stuff from the junk yard you would get the parts that i have shown just used. The only difference that you will see is they will not have the hole in the flange for a wheel speed sensor like the 2009 model year stuff that i have shown