shane74
1/2 ton status
We now offer a disc brake conversion for those of you running a 14BSF axle.
We converted Ryan's (topdown) rig. He is currently running a 14BSF rear axle converted from 8 lug to 6lug, and w/ disc brakes. We had a few interesting challenges, but nothing that we couldn't handle!
He wanted to keep his 6 lug wheels, but have the strength of the 14BSF axle over the stock 12B. We used chromoly 6 lug axles shafts from Randy's Ring & Pinion to replace the 8 lug shafts. Once we had the axle shafts, we were then able to design a kit that will work for the stock 8 lug axles, as well as a converted 6 lug axle.
The good news is that we are able to incorporate most of the standard 14BFF parts into this kit.
In order to get everything to line up correctly, Ryan had to space the mounting bracket 2 1/4" off the current brake backing plate mounting flange. This is way to far for spacers in our opinion, so we designed the kit to use a new weld on mounting bracket, spacer, and caliper bracket, and mounting hardware.
The only tricky part about the kit will be to weld on the new mounting plate so that everything is straight. To take the guess work out of that, we will include spacer alignment hardware that is placed between the current backing plate mount, and the new weld on mount to keep everything straight while it is welded in place.
We still need to use a spacer between the caliper bracket and the axel mounting flange. We don't want anyone burning up their axle seals/bearings when they weld on the axle tube. This seems to be the best way to do this kit and keep it as bolt on as possible
The basic kit will include;
New weld on mounting bracket
Caliper bracket
Caliper bracket spacer
Weld on bracket alignment hardware
Grade 8 mounting hardware
Right now, we're looking at $145 just for the basic kit. We will have pictures up on our site very soon of the basic and full kits.
We converted Ryan's (topdown) rig. He is currently running a 14BSF rear axle converted from 8 lug to 6lug, and w/ disc brakes. We had a few interesting challenges, but nothing that we couldn't handle!
He wanted to keep his 6 lug wheels, but have the strength of the 14BSF axle over the stock 12B. We used chromoly 6 lug axles shafts from Randy's Ring & Pinion to replace the 8 lug shafts. Once we had the axle shafts, we were then able to design a kit that will work for the stock 8 lug axles, as well as a converted 6 lug axle.
The good news is that we are able to incorporate most of the standard 14BFF parts into this kit.
In order to get everything to line up correctly, Ryan had to space the mounting bracket 2 1/4" off the current brake backing plate mounting flange. This is way to far for spacers in our opinion, so we designed the kit to use a new weld on mounting bracket, spacer, and caliper bracket, and mounting hardware.
The only tricky part about the kit will be to weld on the new mounting plate so that everything is straight. To take the guess work out of that, we will include spacer alignment hardware that is placed between the current backing plate mount, and the new weld on mount to keep everything straight while it is welded in place.
We still need to use a spacer between the caliper bracket and the axel mounting flange. We don't want anyone burning up their axle seals/bearings when they weld on the axle tube. This seems to be the best way to do this kit and keep it as bolt on as possible
The basic kit will include;
New weld on mounting bracket
Caliper bracket
Caliper bracket spacer
Weld on bracket alignment hardware
Grade 8 mounting hardware
Right now, we're looking at $145 just for the basic kit. We will have pictures up on our site very soon of the basic and full kits.
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. Anyway, I opted to run the long spacer instead of the new weld-on bracket because I ran out of time and was supposed to be driving the Blazer to the beach the afternoon all the parts showed up. So, within a couple of hours of putting it all together, I loaded up me, my 2 boys, wife, 50-gallon water heater, enough food for 8 people for 4 days, 4 days worth of toys, clothes, carpet cleaner, misc other stuff my wife couldnt live without and headed out for a 3-hour tour to the beach. We made the trip in 2.5 hours, spent 4 days at the beach driving on the sand, through town, etc... and the drive home (minus the food, water heater, etc...) and it all worked beautifully. When I got home I took my wheels off and checked for any strange wear, stresses, etc... and it looked as clean as when I put it on, no issues at all...
are you going to get rid of your old bracket setup?how much?
