The drum brake to disc brake conversion is really simple on 14 bolts. Sky-Manufacturing makes a bolt on disc brake bracket for the conversion. I choose Sky in particular because they design their bracket to not use the bolt spacers that many other companies use, instead Sky actually bends their bracket correctly for the right depth. The rotors, calipers, pads and hardware are from the front of a 1976 Chevy K2500. Disc brakes are really nice instead of drum brakes because they self clean and are easy to maintain. Servicing the drum brakes on a 14 bolt requires a lot of removal and is ultimately a waste of time. Anytime the rig goes through mud the drum brakes would need to be cleaned. With disc brakes service is very easy and there is little to no need to clean them, except on the extreme occasion. The whole swap is very simple to do, removing the drum brakes is the hardest part. Overall I probably spent around $200-300 on this conversion several years ago.
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