dana 70 mods?

[REDCRO_REDNECK]

has anyone put disk brakes on a 83 d70? any kits? anyone used a lock right in one?

I am thinking about putting a d70 that I can get pretty cheap in my truck, comes with 4.56 gears and huge drums.

let me know if you have done mods to one thanks

 

[mofugly13]

In the vendor forum, someone is offering disk kits for D70's. One thing, I have a D70U, and while it was sitting on the floor of my shop I decided to prep it for disks, since I had the hubs all apart to swap wheel studs. I had a set of 8-lug ten bolt rotors, but they wouldnt fit over the hub. I ended up having to turn about a tenth of an inch or so off the diameter. So now they'll fit when I finally get around to making the swap. I researched this problem here and on pirate, it seems that some have this problem, and others do not.

 

[Bushwhacker]

My buddy has one sitting in my shop. Its a D70HD, he made his own disc brackets and stuff. He has the 4.56's and a Detroit.

Clay

 

[u2slow]

You'll have a hard time with a bolt-on kit... the backing plate flange is *really* far away from the rotor. You could do a weld-on kit easily enough.

You could also cut the welds off the flange, use a typical 14bFF kit, and reweld the flange where the bracket dictates. Just have to find out if the kit will take a 4" axle tube

Something else to look at if you're bored.
http://www.nvrenuf.fws1.com/custom.html