Everyone is talking brakes

[panhandler62]

or maybe it just seems that way since that is where I am at right now.

I am getting the third member ready to put back in. I'll be yanking the drums and everything that goes with them later today. It's going back together with dics.

That said ...

I found the rotors, found an adapter and I have calipers just laying around. Once I get the hubs off the drums I'll have most of what I need but it occured to me that the Chevy calipers I have (off the front of a 77) won't give me something a manual truck needs pretty badly; a parking brake.

I see three solutions to this:

1) Get 79ish Caddy rear calipers with the cable operated parking brakes
2) Go completely aftermarket
3) Get a shaft brake

I really don't want to spend the money implied by #2 (and don't know if anyone makes a system for my HO52/72 hubs anyway.)

I'm vasilating between #1 and #3 though, mostly because there is a certain "cool factor" to using a shaft brake.

What are your thoughts?

[nlped]

The shaft brake definitely has the "coolness factor" going for it. I have one on my Jeep that I used a motorcycle rotor and a cable operated caliper with a brake lever out of an old fork lift that was being put out to pasture. It works great.

The old cadillac e-brake calipers leave a lot to be desired as far as function, and they are kind of expensive.

I vote shaft mounted

[mickeymouse]

I vote driveline ebrake with one of these:

http://www.jegs.com/p/Wilwood/Wilwoo...57779/10002/-1

[panhandler62]

I think I have a grip on this now (so to speak.)

When you used a motorcycle rotor did you find one where you could drill the appropriate holes to mount it or did you make an adapter to mount the rotor to?

[8mpg]

Driveline brake would be kinda cool... Im kind of in the same shoes. I want rear disc brakes but must retain an ebrake because of the manual transmission.