Disc brake conversion
Just finished a disc brake conversion on my fiver this week. The August issue of Trailer Life has a fairly good article on a similar conversion. But when it comes to bleeding the brakes, the article...
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shadows4 wrote:
Great info Larry. Sounds like your install was fairly straight forward. If you don't mind could you tell us your cost for the conversion? Congrats and happy camping, John
It was right at $1500 including tax and shipping. The pump and brakes from Southwest Wheel, lines and fittings from eTrailer. But if I would have rebuilt the drum brakes, it would have cost close to $500 anyway for new backing plates with shoes/magnets and new drums with bearings and seals. In my experience at some point drums need to be turned or replaced and the cost at a machine shop to turn both magnet and shoe surfaces is more than new drums. Besides with new drums, come new studs, so less worry about a snapped stud.
