8.8 swap
Ok, thanks. I have a spare set of barracuda rear cables. I was going to try to adapt those to work with the explorer shoe brakes.
I'm still on the fence about this one, but heres a thought, I'm wondering if anybody gave a thought to using the ford rotor, but **** canning the stock exploder emergency shoe brake setup altogether, and remounting the axle and rotor with out it, then using a caliper with integral park brake cable crank. Theres some GM types out there set up with integral parking E brake w the caliper.
They can be mounted with weld on metric brackets that speedway and others sell. Looks like 85 eldorado calipers might do the trick. If the exploder solid rear rotor isnt thick enough you could possibly use front exploder vented rotors on the back, or if that rotor is too thick, you could make spacers for behind the brake pads to shim them out. 85 eldo was smallish FWD caddy, i'm betting its rear rotors were non vented like the explodet ones and shimming may not be necessary.
The cable mounting brackets and linkage look a bit more user friendly for a mopar parking brake cable.
Ok, thanks. I have a spare set of barracuda rear cables. I was going to try to adapt those to work with the explorer shoe brakes.
I'm still on the fence about this one, but heres a thought, I'm wondering if anybody gave a thought to using the ford rotor, but **** canning the stock exploder emergency shoe brake setup altogether, and remounting the axle and rotor with out it, then using a caliper with integral park brake cable crank. Theres some GM types out there set up with integral parking E brake w the caliper.
They can be mounted with weld on metric brackets that speedway and others sell. Looks like 85 eldorado calipers might do the trick. If the exploder solid rear rotor isnt thick enough you could possibly use front exploder vented rotors on the back, or if that rotor is too thick, you could make spacers for behind the brake pads to shim them out. 85 eldo was smallish FWD caddy, i'm betting its rear rotors were non vented like the explodet ones and shimming may not be necessary.
The cable mounting brackets and linkage look a bit more user friendly for a mopar parking brake cable.