How do you make the parking brakes on the rear end inactive. I just swapped from a drum rear to a disk rear and don't want to buy new parking brake cables so I figured I would just take them out. Can I take off those metal weights without any side effects... such as the brakes not working and leaking? After looking at them, it seems as though the weight would always be activating the parking brake.

Also, will keeping my stock disk/drum prop valve hinder the braking performance that I would be getting from swapping to disks? How can I tell if the disk/disk prop valve I have will work in my car?

I'm stumped...
Mike

 

Don't install the cables.

 

Thanks, but that didn't really give the answer I'm looking for...

 

What more do you want? If you don't want the parking brake to work, just don't install the cables. That's all that needs to be done.

 

Ok, I just wasn't sure if the weight that would be left would still activate the parking brake. Is there a way to take teh metal weight off and keep it from leaking?

 

As long as you don't take out the parking brake return springs the brakes aren't going to apply themselves somehow. If you wanted to get rid of the weights, you'd have to saw them off. Easier just to leave them alone.

 

What year is the disc rear?

Ed

 

Mike:

Yes, the disc/drum prop valve will not give you the best performance on a disc/disc car, but it will work. Drums and discs use the brake fluid differently to work. I'm having a brain fart at the moment, but one of them uses the volume of fluid, and the other uses the pressure of the fluid. If your gonna swap to rear discs, do it right and use a disc/disc prop valve.

What disc/disc prop valve do you have???? How are we supposed to answer that without knowing. Does it look like the prop valve in your car? Then it probably will work.

 

Honestly, I can't remember what it came out of... if I had to guess I think it was an 89.

I have two other disk/disk prop valves and they look just like the disk/drum that is on my car. I haven't compared the part numbers on them yet.

The two styles looked different?.. didn't know that...