It was trucks on spike....well, the guy is kind of a dork, but he was showing this really cool product. He was putting on rear disc brakes as a conversion and inside the rotor there were what looked to be drum brakes. He explained these as being the e brake only. So you would use the disc brakes in back for normal stopping and the drum type brakes for the ebrake. It looked really cool and like it would hook up to the stock cable. Has anyone else seen this on or off a toy? Do you think it would work for us as another option for an e brake?

 

Are you talking about the drum in hat rotors? GM has been doing that for a few years now. I think it could work for our Toys but I dont know if anyone has tried it.

 

I haven't seen them on a Toy but a lot of auto manufacturers have been doing this for awhile. (Ford is the only one I know of for sure).

I would think an easier E-brake would be the new driveline e-brake that was on another spike truck show (or maybe it was trucks I don't remember.) It puts a Disk onto the driveline with a cable actuated (non hydraulic) Caliper bolted to the transfer case. Looks pretty slick and easy to install.

 

Mercedes benz has been doing it for 20 years or so. works really well. of course it would be cheaper to fit a tranny brake and rear discs than design and build this..

 

Almost all toyota rear disc brake cars do this. Take a look at a camry, solora, or avalon. They have Drum-style e-brakes. Some cars such as MR2's had cable activated ebrakes built into the caliper.

 

Stacey is not a dork

 

agreed, that guy is pretty cool

 

If anyone is interested the driveline brake is from High-angle driveline and the show was TRUCKS!



Linky

 

A drilled rotor for a driveline-specific e-brake has got to be for show only? I see no reason why it would need to use a dilled rotor. The disc only gets clamped while the truck is sitting still.

Looks cool though!

Andreas

 

Thats funny, I hadn't thought of that. True no need for cross drilling. Maybe it is to try and cool it down after you drove two miles and forgot to take it off? lol

 

yeah I've wondered that myself...

 

The one linked isnt for Toyotas.


you can get them from both


www.sky-manufacturing.com




www.allprooffroad.com

 

Cross Dilled??? Is that some kind of transfer case pickling??

All joking aside, perhaps its cheaper to make the rotors that way, not to mention it saves weight thus somewhat (albeit prolly not much) reduces wear on your output shaft bearing?!!

 

sorry...I've been away. Yes...that guy is a dork. Stacey?...wow.....I just thought the disc/drum brake deal was pretty cool and hadn't really seen it before although I'm not really knowledgable on all the car stuff. I thought the driveline disc from allpro and sky only work for 4 cyl?

 

my 84 supra had the drum brakes inside the rotors.

 

All of my parent's Volvos have had rear discs with a drum parking brake on the inside. I think it is a pretty cool setup and would like to see Toyota use it on the trucks. The Volvo rotors aren't any more expensive and you get the performance of discs with the convenience of a parking brake.
A cool swap would be to put Volvo truck portal axles on a Toyota. That way you would get the increased ground clearance plus the brake setup.