OK i have a Dana 60 rear with 5 on 5.5 bolt pattern and a set of 79 ford F-150 rotors Chevy Dana 44 cals and 1/2 ton Dana 44 brackets cut in half. what is the best way to ensure that the cals are on straight...do you bolt every thing up and then pressurize the lines (air or fluid) then weld on the brackets? should i run the rotor on the outside of the axle or inside? anyone have pics of there setup? anyone know a part number/make of veh. for a short rubber line for the cals?

also is anyone running the 79 corvette MC and monty brake booster? how she stop? this is what i am running but jeep is on blocks!

Chris G.:beer:

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Well, I saw this yesterday but I was hoping that someone else would be able to help you out..guess all these other jeep people can't handle mods of this caliber:flipoff2:
I just did a disk conversion on my FF14bolt. On this set up, the disk goes behind the bearing hub and the lugs run through the rotor first and then the hub. I did not pressurized the caliper to weld it on, I just set it up at the most open position--> new pads with the caliper moved outwards as far a possible. This way, when it is pressurized it will float backwards and apply pressure.

As far as lining it up, I tack welded it and then use an a level to make sure it was true. then continued tacking it until it wasn't going to moved. After it cooled, I buzzed the Sh#t out of it. Total time to weld on the caliper was about 3 hours..lots of waiting for the axle to cool between very short passes.

Now, as far as your situation with the rotor: I'm not sure if people put the rotor on the outside or behind the flange with the lugs running through it first. However, I don't have one near to look at but I don't think that you could get the axle on or off with the rotor on there. Aren't there 4 flange bolts that hold the axle in? Should be a hole in the axle flange that will allow you to use a socket to remove them. If you had a rotor on there, it would probable cover that hole and also block the backside so you couldn't get a wrench in there.

also, I have a Camaro M/C and it stopped my front 44 disk and rear 60 drumed Scout just fine. I think that your Corvette one should do the job.

HTH-SD

well ether way you do it you will block the whole on the out side where it is not press on the back of the flange all you would have to do is to pop the cal off and go to town!

to get it to line up i just need to make sure that the cal is not at the "end' so it will have outward motion to clamp...i hear that the pressurize the cal is the easy and sure fire way to tell if it is straight....

as for the welding i am going to let my welder buddy do it (40+ years in the field) so i don’t fu%( it up...i am the king of ugly trail welds!

Chris G.
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