Got tired of having my rear drums fade and vibrate during not-so-hard braking ...
So yesterday I installed used disk brakes form a '00 v6 on my '00 LE 4cyl. The car already had the v6-sized brakes in the front from the factory, btw.
I only finished the passenger side for now, but could not wait and post a pic
Here is a link to the parts list (scroll down to my post)
http://www.toyotanation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18410
In addition to what I wrote there, here's some more info (two things I was not sure about till I took the car apart):
- the parking brake cables for disks are different (on the side where it attaches to the parking brake)
- the brake lines are also different
It took me about 5 hours to do the first side alone, since I needed to be careful - first time I take off the entire brakes and wheel hubs. Will probably finish the other side tomorrow (hopefully for less than 3 hours since I know what to do this time around).
I tested the car with one drum and one disk on the rear and everything seems to work just fine (the rear brakes don't do much work and I figured the ABS will take care of any small imbalance, so it felt safe enough).
Only one negative observation so far - the disk brake's parking brake seems to be weaker than the drum, but this is expected, as the parking brake on the drum uses full-sized shoes, about 3 times the area of the parking brake in the disk brake.
I'll post the write-up and some more detailed driving impressions later.
The pic below shows the new disk backing plate and brake installed with the old drum brake still attached by the brake cable.
The next picture shows the finished brake
:thumbup:
So yesterday I installed used disk brakes form a '00 v6 on my '00 LE 4cyl. The car already had the v6-sized brakes in the front from the factory, btw.
I only finished the passenger side for now, but could not wait and post a pic
Here is a link to the parts list (scroll down to my post)
http://www.toyotanation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18410
In addition to what I wrote there, here's some more info (two things I was not sure about till I took the car apart):
- the parking brake cables for disks are different (on the side where it attaches to the parking brake)
- the brake lines are also different
It took me about 5 hours to do the first side alone, since I needed to be careful - first time I take off the entire brakes and wheel hubs. Will probably finish the other side tomorrow (hopefully for less than 3 hours since I know what to do this time around).
I tested the car with one drum and one disk on the rear and everything seems to work just fine (the rear brakes don't do much work and I figured the ABS will take care of any small imbalance, so it felt safe enough).
Only one negative observation so far - the disk brake's parking brake seems to be weaker than the drum, but this is expected, as the parking brake on the drum uses full-sized shoes, about 3 times the area of the parking brake in the disk brake.
I'll post the write-up and some more detailed driving impressions later.
The pic below shows the new disk backing plate and brake installed with the old drum brake still attached by the brake cable.
The next picture shows the finished brake
:thumbup:
