9 inch rear with stock disc brakes...???

[rawraw67]

I did the swap.got the hole rearend for $125 73 ford lincoln 9" not versaliess but the mark 4. I put it my 70 chevy truck

[troy54gmc]

Hey Raw67 did the 73 lincoln mark 4 come with factory disc brakes? and did you keep the same gears in it or upgrade?

[Tri5Nerd]

Originally Posted by troy54gmc

Hey Raw67 did the 73 lincoln mark 4 come with factory disc brakes? and did you keep the same gears in it or upgrade?

Yes, they do, I got mine from a mark 4. it has disc brakes. If you can find one it's will be 62" wide.

Raw, How did you do the emergency brake setup?


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[rawraw67]

Tri5Nerd I have not got the e-brake hook up yet,I have two short left side cables and will try to hook them up, when I fab up some kind of bracket I will just hook it to the front cable.How about you? what did have you come up with ?

[Tri5Nerd]

Originally Posted by rawraw67

Tri5Nerd I have not got the e-brake hook up yet,I have two short left side cables and will try to hook them up, when I fab up some kind of bracket I will just hook it to the front cable.How about you? what did have you come up with ?

I got some cables from a bronco II and will try to adapt them when I get to that point.
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[michaelnolimit]

90's ford Explorer has disc brakes and an internal drum style e-brake. Very nice setup. The versi stuff works pretty good but I don't like the way you have to adjust the e brake. To adjust the e brake you cruise at 20-30 miles an hour In Reverse and pull the e-brake several times. The caliper has this weird ratchet mechanism inside that requires this In reverse style of adjustment. Ive had luck with the versi rears but have had quite a few headaches as well. I now use the ford explorer stuff.

[troy54gmc]

Hey Mike. its weird that you mention this cause i just went to the junkyard last week and purchased a 95 ford explorer rearend. I researched and found out that the 95-01 explorers came with 8.8 rearends with disc brakes. I picked mine up for just over $100 bucks and its a 8.8 with disc brakes 3.73 gears with locker and 31 spline axles and sway bar. it also came with a really cool 2 into one e-brake cable system that should be easy to hook up to a factory e-brake. the only thing i dont like about it is the c-clips that hold the axles in the housing. ive heard this is the weak link and if they brake you lose the axle and wheel. i was reading something about a way to weld these some how to solve this problem??? does anyone know about this???

[Mike Bradbury]

I did the Mark V swap into my '69 C10 about a year ago. It is not cheap but is is a very good axle. Brake parts are on the expensive side, not so much the pads but the calipers and rotors. The rotors have a directional fin in the vent ports. Most cars I guess do not have this so it makes them kind of rare. If you need to replace the calipers then save the old ones for the core they are worth around $70 at nappa.

The Mark axles are wider than the Versailles, and have coil spring perches vs the Versailles leaf perches, they also fit the wider 60's style trucks better. Not sure how wide your '54 is but I had to run a bit of a spacer to get the wheels out to the edge of the wheel wells.

I ended up fabricating an E-brake bracket that works very well. I did not like the '77 version of the e-brake bracket on the caliper that hangs below the rotor. I searched in the junk yards and found a late 80's early 90's Mark that had reversed brackets that pull up rather than down. Also out of that same late 80's/90's Lincoln I used the e-brake cables ends that connected right up to my old C10 cables.





Here are some brackets that I fabricated so that the e-brake arm pulls up not down. You can see them mounted on the calipers in the first picture on top of the caliper.