Supercharged111
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LOL, pretty much. My phone isn't showing sigs, I checked before posting.
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Nope, 14 FF and 14 SF are two different animals...
On any truck, you definately WANT more weight in the rear to balance the truck front to rear. By design, trucks have all their weight up front to offset additional weight from a full payload... they were designed this way because of their intended use... removing weight off the front is where you should look at.
As for rear drums, Discs look cool, but unless you are going full tilt, with huge race-spec calipers and rotors, you are wasting money and risking safety... The advantages to discs are weight savings and better heat dissipation during repeated braking.. ie.) racing conditions.
Drum Brakes also have more surface area to stop a vehicle and work much better for emergency brake use... this is why almost all stock rear disc systems now have a built-in mini-drum for the ebrake... but funny enough, most companies dont call those an "Emergency Brake" anymore because its an automatic liability claim, so they now call them a "Parking Brake" instead... few folks realize this.
If you use that Disc brak's mini-drum as an Emergency Brake, it will damn near disintegrate and competely fail... (ask me how I know).
You can do what you wish, but you can make a rear drum look good, clean them up and simply paint the drums in hi-temp Black, or detail them to match the body... (Black dissipates heat the best)
Will it work for a 9.5 SF?
I HAD THE FANCY BLACK DRUMS ON MY TAHOE haha didn't float my boat. I just cannot believe there is that much difference in performance. New trucks have awdb so i figured if I'm rebuilding everything anyways the cool factor is worth it. Also i won't be using a kit with park brake provision because i am going to "fabri-cobble" a driveline park/emergency brake.
i believe it only works for full float axles. The old style where the drum is behind the hub.
my brother's GMT800 1/2 ton has 4 wheel disks and stops great.....because it has a 4 wheel disk SYSTEM that was researched and DESIGNED to work as it's SUPPOSED to.
you can lead a horsey to water....he just may want to die of thirst............