Aftermarket disc brakes...not caddy calipers

[jtrux]

I am going to be redoing the brakes on my V1500 soon and was wondering if anyone has installed Wilwood disc brakes or anything along those lines on their rig?

I don't want to get into a discussion about cost, but more about how they perform and what not.

 

[nvrenuf]

Still running a 10 bolt or different?

You’ll probably find more folks have swapped to a later model factory disc (with ebrake) axle than Wilwood type stuff.

 

[jtrux]

10 bolts front and rear.

 

[obijuank5]

That is a huge waste of money. For the amount of money and effort I'd swap in an entire better axle assembly.

 

[frankin5]

Then he would probably be looking at a gear change.

 

[K85 Octane]

Or keep the engineered drum brakes

 

[acm]

I have a "per-engineered" Baer kit on a 2wd Tahoe (not an apples to apples comparison). They look trick and work awesome eventually.
The front hubs are quality pcs but widen the track 1/2" (which no-one @ Baer was aware of an not as much of an issue on a lifted 4x4).
All the brackets for the calipers required reworking and are a bit flimsy.
Parking break required even more reworking which is unacceptable for a kit.

Looking at putting better brakes on my K3500 w/SAS swap and will most likely use the bigger dodge brakes on the D60 and the rear disks off a GMT800. Cost isn't the major reason, pure aggravation of redoing a per-engineered kit is!!!

Another plus is local/trail availability of OEM parts. (that being said, I just ordered a front/rear brake kit from Wilwood for an AMX because factory parts are obsolete...fully expect to have to modify something though)

 

[Blue85]

Somebody must have grafted on GMT800 rear discs with the drum-in-hat parking brake by now. Must be a million of those 10-bolts in the junkyards. Might be able to rework them to mount on the square-body 10-bolt backing plate mount.

 

[K85 Octane]

Or just swap the axle unless width is an issue

 

[Blue85]

Yeah, just have to cut off the trailing arm mounts, coil spring buckets, etc and put some leaf spring pads on. Re-gearing is almost certainly required. Might be some 3.73 out there, but a lot of 3.42.