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Originally Posted by ryanroo
i wouldnt even swap to those axles. i used a dodge 80 in my truck and specifically looked for the drum variant. the caliper hat parking brake is a pile donkey scat. they hold... ish. they are notorious for getting really crummy and being a pile of crap. and mechanically a drum is a better system. IMO the advantage is that the disk set up wont collect dirt. that is the only reason i ran it on my jeep.
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These late model American Axle 10.5 and 11.5 axles have park brake issues? My 2001 HD has been great and the park brake holds like the truck is drilled into the ground. BUT, the truck is a total garage queen with only 60,000 miles. It’s never seen a dirt road (there than the one I live on) or mud. The 2005 HD I fixed and flipped was a retired work truck and the park brake seemed to work okay but it was an automatic where I probably only used the park brake once in the 2 years I had it.
Haven’t heard of any issues on these from GM dealers.
That is a bummer if these have issues too. Seems like ingenious idea for rear disk and superior to any rear disk setup used in prior years of vehicles…especially the El Dorado/Tornado turds of calipers.
At the end of the day, I agee. I’ll stick with my big heavy 13 x 3.5 drums any day and let the rock crawlers and magazine reader sheaple follow the rear disk swap trend.