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Project Potent Rodent: 14 bolt disk brake install
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James / Apex, NC, UNITED STATES
 Posted Aug 10 2007 11:36AM
Can you run 15 inch wheels with the TSM disc brake conversion?
RB / harwinton, CT, UNITED STATES
 Posted Feb 04 2008 11:26PM
where can i get a good disc brake conversion kit for a gm 14 bolt like the one shown in your project?
mobass52 / Tracy, CA, UNITED STATES
 Posted Mar 12 2008 11:22PM
Hi, great pics. I also installed a tsm disc kit on my 14 bolt. The install was a snap but I would like to get some ideas from anybody about the parking brake cable and which master cylinder will work best.When I first installed the rear kit I was using the stock booster and master cylinder from a 3/4 ton chevy truck and the brakes were hardly noticable. I installed a disc/disc combo valve in place of the stock blazer combo valve that was mounted on the front cross member and no change. I should tell you what I am building, it might help. I own a 1951 Willys pick up and mounted the body on a 1972 Chevy Blazer chassis. I installed a 14 bolt rear axle and a Dana 44 in the front. All the wheels are disc brake and 8 lug. I built a 383 strocker out of the 350 that I was running before the rebuild and the brakes where good. I am at the point now that I am going to install a 8 inch dual booster and a master cylinder from a 1967 to 76 corvette 1 and 1/8th inch bore. I hope this does the trick for me. My 383 has the same cam in it before the rebuild and vacuum might also be low enoiugh to make my brakes weak too. I should need aboutr 18 inches and I am getting about 15 right now. Now going to the parking brake setup. I installed a Lokar floor mount brake handle and lokar cables and they don't seem to lock the brakes up either. I must have overlooked something but I am at a lose. I have blead and reblead the calipers til I am blue in the face. Can you give me any ideas of where I may have gone wrong? Thanks for your time. Mo in Tracy Cal.
 
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