How would I go in taking off the brake shoes and drums and finding a rear cable disc brake have to be a 5 studer,to put on my older Viscount how would I go?
I had a 1987 Nissan pintara once it had cable pull cable to the rear brake pads.
The wheels are 14 inch and there a 5 studer,maybe remove the whole baking plate?
Depends what your stud pattern is ,Nissan have a 4x 114.3 and a 5x 114.3 same as ford pattern. You can use a complete disc assembly from a 86/89 Nissan skyline front hubs , change the bearings to I think No 2 bearing kit (pretty universal but check stub suitability ) change the coupling to a hydraulic unit and use the skyline callipers . I have built a few trailers now and always use this system . cheap easy to replace parts and very affective.
Yeah. Put technical questions in the techies corner forum. That is what it is there for!
Sorry. That was a bit abrupt. I do think that we all should try to use the suitable forum. It makes the site flow better.
-- Edited by Collo on Sunday 11th of May 2014 03:32:18 PM
Understand where you are coming from Collo. On other forums, Admin team are a lot more pro active in-redirecting wrongly posted threads. Also directing traffic to subjects already mentioned (use the search function first)
How would I go in taking off the brake shoes and drums and finding a rear cable disc brake have to be a 5 studer,
to put on my older Viscount how would I go?
I had a 1987 Nissan pintara once it had cable pull cable to the rear brake pads.
The wheels are 14 inch and there a 5 studer,maybe remove the whole baking plate?
Any suggestion?
G'day, you have to change the backing plate, they are very different to cable or drum brakes. The kinetic energy forces involved are very different as are the loads placed on components, not sure about your situation, but may need a power source to drive the brakes. You can get backing plates and caliper set ups just about anywhere, as it's 14inch I'd assume its either a holden or ford setup. disc setups for them are very common, check out Ebay or search for a disc setup on the net. We have a couple pf places in Tas who sell trailer parts and thats' where we got out bits and pieces when we changed one of our trailers brakes.
We changed a big trailer to discs, it had a 14 inch holden setup and we changed it to 16 inch land cruiser wheels, it only took a few hours to change them over and set up the electric brake system. Wired it to the car/bus brakes, made a couple of adjustments and that was it.
Make sure you have the right size axle, if not just weld 90deg angle iron to the bottom and or top of the axle you double it's strength.
