Been pondering doing rear discs to my truck for some time and can't even think to spend what these yeayhoos want for a kit. I was thinking about doing my own brackets, front solid rotors and using something like 2000ish accord rear calipers so that i get a contained ebrake system without having to do the goofy line lock that everyone claims to use. sorry guys if any of you have this setup. personal opinion. anyways, anyone done this or seen anybody do it before? i'm always looking to somewhat pioneer.....

 

As in making your own brackets or the caliper choice?

 

either or both. i'm sure someone somewhere has made their own caliper brackets. but i kinda get excited about honda rear calipers. foolproof, self adjusting ebrake with parts that are on almost any major parts store shelf.

 

I'd think that would interest a lot a folks. How pricey are they? Are they single piston? Multi piston would be overkill IMO. Also, you'll still have to mill the rotors to fit over the axles IIRC.

 

single piston, you can buy them from napa with brackets and hardware, relatively cheap, very common so most parts stores stock them. AND THEY ARE METRIC!!!!

the rotors, i don't think, would be a big deal onto the hubs or do some more searching as to something else that will fit.

 

 

Pretty sure there's no rotors ready to fit from napa. I think allpro sells the rotors machined.

Hmmmm, it'll be interesting to see what you come up with

 

Isn't the caliper related to rotor size? Seems like last time I looked under an Accord the disc wasn't that big around.

 

I got a setup from a guy on here for a real good deal and will be putting it on soon. I questioned the chevy rotor/caliper choice and assumed that it could be done better. What I've found poking around salvage yards and the internet is that the chevy is sort of the best/easiest setup. There are isuzu troopers with rear disks (already 6 lug) and the car rear disks like you mentioned, but when you start looking at the brake it looks like you'd get less brake than the factory drum. I was thinking (and will give it a look) about seeing if a FJ cruiser rotor internal parking brake will come out far enough to rig a small pad on the existing parking brake linkage and just not cutting the backing plate all the way down. Just using the FJ or 4rnr set up won't work cause they use a 3 bolt mounting system. Nissan frontier brackets have too small of a bolt circle on the rotor and mounting brackets at the axle tube. Nissan Titans may be something there (right rotor bolt pattern diameter) but I don't know if the axle tube 4 bolt pattern is close to the right size. I'd be real interested to see what you find though, keep us posted.

 

Lots of the early pioneers got scalped by Indians

You need to do a lot more R&D. Good luck.

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[quote=91diesel;51701034]There are isuzu troopers with rear disks (already 6 lug) and the car rear disks like you mentioned, but when you start looking at the brake it looks like you'd get less brake than the factory drum. [quote]

in comparison with the rear drums i have now, after slogging through the mud and either my front end nosedives really bad or my ebrake doesn't work at all, (or both) i think anything would be better. and yes i do believe i need to do some more r&d wabbit. i think i'm gonna have napa send over the parts today while i'm at work. i'll take some pictures....

 

while the accord rotors are a smaller diameter, if you moved their mounting location out 1", you could effectively use a 2" larger diameter rotor. the only thing i can't remember is how wide of a pad area they have for rotor contact.

 

Use montero sport rear discs because they are big enough to go over the axle hub and use trooper rear calipers because they have an emergency brake.

 

Are they cheaper than el camino calipers?

 

Dig it

 

i am also wanting to do this conversion. as soon as i get some time i am going to see how rear supra calipers might work with SFA solid rotors might work.
there is the re rout and rewire e-brake line to the brake petal and rewire the brake light + to a ign +. but i will more than likely use one of the electric remote line locks.

 

I think (not sure though) that I saw the montero's in the junk yard the other day and they have the really small/thin rotor that's probably less brake than the factory drum. Like I said, I'm changing mine, but the rear drums can be made much better than usual by unbolting the lspv rod and tying it up under the bed and adjusting the rear drums properly. On every toyota truck I've ever done the brakes on this makes the brakes perform much better.

 

agreed 91 diesel especially with bigger tires

 

I did my own set up .. , you can see it in my trekker build , or "my current project" in my sig

I used caddy calipers with the emerg. leavers , and built my own cable ... 1 off and it works great !!

easy to do with a little time and tools


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Hmmm. Disadvantage of the Eldorado calipers is the $$$, kind of defeats the on a budget portion.