I scored me some Maxima Caliper brackets.

[Guest JAMIE T]

Well, I got those caliper brackets off the Maxima at the pick and pull. No charge, thank you very much. These are the correct offset bolt-on brackets. The car was a 3/81 build date and it is a diesel. I've started pulling the motor to get the crank out of it.

 

I've got a '83 ZX parts car, that I'm gonna pull the rest of the rear brakes off of, so I'll have rear discs on my driver

 

Thanks guys for the input on removing the stub axles at the JY. I ended up using a 1 1/16" socket, a breaker bar with a four foot pipe, a four foot long pinch bar stuffed in the wheel studs, and a friend. I made an adapter for my slide hammer that attached to the wheel studs using the lug nuts. It worked very well(plus my slide hammer is huge) About six good tugs and out came the stub axle.

[Tony240ZT]

There's a Maxi here in town I'd love to do the same to, what's a pinch bar?

[Guest JAMIE T]

A pinch bar is the long bars with a chisel shape on one end. Railroads use them for moving ties and rails into place. I use it to heavy machines like Mills and lathes. The chisel end gets a grip on the floor and gives you leverage.

[Guest Anonymous]

Pretty much like a wrecking bar from like home depot? 3' long or so and has a chisel like tip on one end and a crow bar on the other end? I used one of them many times for like demolition of old construction in houses and stuff. Very intimidating tool.

 

Regards,

 

Lone

[opie]

Those can be a mutha to get off. We broke 2 cheapo breaker bars getting the set I got.

[Guest Anonymous]

What are you considering for the e-brake? Does it appear that you may be able to use the Zx cable for the calipers? Or are you thinking of just eliminating the e-brake?

[TomoHawk]

Hey 1-GenMan,

 

Looks like you forgot the ol' WD-40! Always spray some on & in a couple minutes, the nut comes off!

 

Best 2 tools I have are WD-40 and copper/graphite anti-seize!

[TomoHawk]

Does somebody have a write-up of the disk-brake conversion? The one in the tech section comes up blank!

[Tim240z]

TomoHawk,

The writeup in the tech section is for the Toyo 4X4 upgrade and you can read it by highlighting the text with your cursor (text is the same color as the background, doh ).

 

Just FYI

Tim

[TomoHawk]

Where's that tech article? Highlughting text doesn't do anything, and I can't find a 'tech section' on this site.

[Tim240z]

Go to the main page of the site. WWW.HybridZ.org and look at the left Nav bar. Under Tech section there are two articles, one for T56 and one for brakes. Click on the link for brakes, then on that page, click and hold and drag down and the text will appear.

Tim

[TomoHawk]

Oh, I get it. It's got white font on white back. No problem if the admin will change the 9 occuances of the value.

 

Actually, I thought it was about putting disc brakes on the back.

 

Does anybody have a successful install?