Tacoma750

Well the Pickup needs new rear brakes. I figure nows the time to go with disks out back. I do a lot of mud/water....that and sand doesnt treat drum brakes very well. I already have a set of slotted and drilled rotors that are for the 86 IFS front. What else is needed to run a rear disk setup? I figure i'll pick up some calipers...but I dont know what ones to get. Can I use a set of IFS front calpers? Than, how do I hold it all to the axle? What else am I missing

89macrunner

http://www.allprooffroad.com/index.p...ask=view&id=33

There is a lot of work switching over to discs..

dont forget about a parking brake and the extra pressure needed to run discs (bigger mc)

waskillywabbit

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Thread on Pirate and on here I think about how to do it already.

drew303

yea plenty of info to be found between here and pirate

heres my writeup on it
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116.../#post50586263

It's much more expensive to use all toyota and you have to do a full-floater conversion to keep toyota calipers.

IME, the GM's are MORE THAN ADEQUATE.. and i say that and i mean it. Unless you WANT and NEED a full floater setup it's better to go with the GM calipers IMO =)

btw, these brakes rock.

stormin94

I'm all about the simplicity. I love my drums...

toy283

Rear disks using all Toyota parts really isn't too difficult. The GM conversion requires the boring out of the center hole of the disks, something that will have to be done each time you replace them. My conversion involved turning down the axle flange enough that the Toyota rotor would fit over them. This is machine work that needs to be done once. The only real non-Toyota parts are the wheel studs I chose, they are front studs from an Eagle Premiere. I chose those because they had a longer shank on them and the rotor wouldn't be pushing against threads. For calipers, I used a set of 2nd gen ('89-91) Camry rear calipers. However, these calipers do not have an e-brake; the Camry used a disk/drum hybrid in the rear, the drum portion was the e-brake. Supra calipers can also be used fairly easily. I had to design & fabricate my own caliper brackets but it wasn't really too difficult. The only major difference between my rear and yours is that I installed my all-Toyota disk brakes onto a Ford 9" rear axle (drilled for Toyota 6-lug). The basic methods should carry over from one axle to the other as I see it.

M threezy

Any success with all Toyota parts?

drew303

I thought that was already explained here?

If you want to do all yota, do the full-floater conversion from FROR and use IFS calipers. Done.

It just costs a ton. If your not anal about keeping your junk totally Japanese then refer to my link further up to my disc swap.

It works fine and I love it... whoever said they love simplicity and love their drums is on crack. Drums are NOT simple lol

drguitarum2005

hell i dont even think my rear drums work. hooray for at least front disk brakes!

waskillywabbit

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I did a FROR full floater conversion on the rear and have the same brakes on all four corners.

tc

x 3 for the full floater conversion if you wheel your truck

http://frontrangeoffroadfab.com/nfos...00dbb88734713d

a4runnerfreak

Hey Wabbit, how long did it take for you to do your conversion? And on which rig?

waskillywabbit

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85 4Runner w/ a wider 86 (IFS) 4Runner rear axle

2 to 3 hours. It is just like rebuilding a SFA except without the knuckle balls.

a4runnerfreak

Ok, cool. Thank you, sir