Drum to Disk Diff Swap
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Drum to Disk Diff Swap
This weekend I am picking up a disc brake differential for my 85 Z28. After a thorough restoration, what problems am I going to face upon installation i.e....Emergency brake cable change or just adjust???? I have no idea what kind of problems are in-store???
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Thank you in advance for your knowledge.
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
Im not familar with the 3rd gen disk rears, as i went from a drum rear to a 4th gen rear. But you will most likley need to replace your proportioning valve with one from a disk rear, and also get parking brake cables from a disk brake car as well, but Im not 100% on this. Other than that, assuming its fully assembled with calipers, hoses and the hard brake lines, you should be good to go.
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
The drum brake cables will not work,.... the cables you'll need will depend on the disk brakes your using. ( 82-88 disk, or 90-92 disk ?? ) If the rear is a LS1 rear-end ( brakes ) than there are a couple options to get the Parking brake working, but some custom work will be required.
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
Thanks John. It's a 1984 Z28 HO. disk brake, posi, and 3:73 gears. Its been setting in dry storage under plastic for the last 10 years......lots of restoration ahead.
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
Just seems like good timing; Send me a PM if your interested in an LS1 rear disc upgrade. ( I took these pics this afternoon while cleaning up in the garage a bit,.... )
P.S. Includes the LS disk E-Brake cables,too - just not pictured. Missing 2 little pins of the E-Brake hardware ( lost them ) and needs new E-Brake lever rubber boots. ( they ALL need new boots. )
P.S. Includes the LS disk E-Brake cables,too - just not pictured. Missing 2 little pins of the E-Brake hardware ( lost them ) and needs new E-Brake lever rubber boots. ( they ALL need new boots. )
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
Hey thirgen brothers this weekend after putting a ton of work into my engine i,m upgrading the rear diff as well, My current diff is a stock 1984 drum open diff i don,t know what ratio but it a one wheel peel but in the winter i picked up a sweet 1990 posi diff with the aluminum calipers and the ratio is 3.42 from a 1990 formula firebird my black queen is a 1984 trans-am i seen some where in a post which i can not find about doing this i need to change the prop valve or something about a item from summit i can buy that does something so you don,t have to change the prop valve and if it comes down to having to change the prop valve can i just take a prop valve from a gm car that has disk brakes from a pick and pull or does it have to be from a trans-am/camero thanks for the help hope my post it not confusing
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Re: Drum to Disk Diff Swap
Here is the thread you want to start at: https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/brak...e-upgrade.html