disc brakes on the rear

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

i was junk yard hopping today and came upon these... but they dont look like theyll work, it looks alot bigger than my drums... does any one know if theyll bolt up to my first gen blazer? or would i have to get the whole axle?

theyr off of a newer 2 dr blazer btw, plus they have a 00 jimmy with rear disc brakes as well, and a center shift console and new looking seats...


but if any one could give me some pointers for this as to what i need, i know i have a link saved somewhere about it, but id like to go get them next week if theyll work

[noob]

those woud be what you want... i just cut that bump stop off them and put it in place of my old rear

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

Originally Posted by noob

those woud be what you want... i just cut that bump stop off them and put it in place of my old rear

so you're saying to replace the whole rear end? cant i just take the rotars and calipers off and the mounting bracket

[noob]

i am pretty sure you can, in my case i wanted to swap out rears in the first place let me search becuase i know i asked some questions in my quest to gtting disk brakes

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

well that whole thing there with the caliper and rotor, just looks like its a lot bigger than my drum... looks like it would sit my rims out farther and they hit the inner lip as it is...


heres some links i have saved with rear disc brakes


http://www.turbols6.com/gallery/view...1-Rears&page=1


of course i have 2 others but theyr arent working atm

[Azzurri]

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f13/dr...ap-how-167132/

Give that a read, seems pretty straight forward, I've been looking into this swap as well. And maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but it seems like you can just pull the drum setup and switch over the disc setup without switching rear ends, but I could be wrong... rlith?

Originally Posted by l1ld3v1lrydr

theyr off of a newer 2 dr blazer btw, plus they have a 00 jimmy with rear disc brakes as well, and a center shift console and new looking seats...

Pull that center console for me if you don't end up wanting it, lol

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

is there a difference between ls1 rear disc brakes and stock rear disc brakes off a newer blazer?? lol

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

bump...



anyone else have any ideas on this? some more pix would be helpful too.

im begining to think itll work, if not i think my buddy in his newer s10 truck just may buy it so if it wont work for me maybe ill sucker him in to buying it off me so im not stuck with it

[pr1mo360]

did you read this thread?
http://www.blazinlow.com/forum/showt...threadid=18950

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

yea ive read that since my last post... but i still have no clue as to if that will work, from what i understand my rear is 59" long, but im not sure as to how long the rear end is of the blazer in the bone yard.


im still lost, cuz ive rear about the valves that some guys have changed, but some say theyve never changed anything, and theres a bunch of diff rear ends and what not... im lost

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

http://www.blazinlow.com/forum/showt...highlight=rear


thats what the rear looks like that i want just the disc brakes off of, but i guess that would work or something, or id be better off just swapping out the whole rear.

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

Originally Posted by Azzurri

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f13/dr...ap-how-167132/

Give that a read, seems pretty straight forward, I've been looking into this swap as well. And maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but it seems like you can just pull the drum setup and switch over the disc setup without switching rear ends, but I could be wrong... rlith?

this is what i would really like to do, just swap everything over, but the more i read the more im uncertain it will work... cuz of all the diff rear end sizes, all i would really like to do is pull the disc brakes and backing plates and what not off the new one and put on mine... but i read some where that the backing plates or mounting brakes are welded to the rear... so idk...


anyone!?

[AIR SIC]

You should be able to just basically unbolt the mounting plate for the drums and bolt the one for the discs on and install the rotors/calipers. The only difference in width is going to be from the difference in thickness of the drum to the rotor.
There are only 2 rear ends that were used in the Blazers. The 7.5/7.625" and the 8.5". They just had them in different widths for 2wd, 4wd, and ZR2.

[l1ld3v1lrydr]

well my blazer is 4wd and so is the one that i wanna get the brakes off of, tho im unsure of the year. but the one im pulling the center console out of is a 00 and that also has rear disc...


and ya think that will all bolt right up? and i guess the ebrake wont work, what baout the p vavle?

[AIR SIC]

It should all swap over. You don't have the disc brake ebrake stuff available? I don't know what you'd have to do to get that working, I haven't looked at any of this stuff firsthand. For the P valve you're going to want to get one from the truck the axle came from or one with disc rears.