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**slepysal** · 01-01-2007, 12:22 PM

The swap out posted by "mongo" will not work with the 60-62 trucks. Starting in 63 Chevy switched to a spring set up and they used diffrent A arms. You can do a complete cross member swap, or you can get spindles ( stock or lowered) with spindes beeing easiest to do, while some will say the cross meber is cheeper, take into account it would be wise to replace all bushings,ball joints, inspect or replace tie rods, calipers , rotors , hoses, bearins , seas etc. it can add up.
One thing to keep in mind is the NEED to replace your master cylinder, this can be pricey ( 300.00-450.00)if you have a manual transmision. This is becuse the master cylinder controls ( on difrent resivours) the brakes and hydrulic clutch.
I am leaning on the drop spindels on my 60. and fabing up a seprete brake and clutch master. Good luck keep us posted

01-01-2007, 12:22 PM	#2
slepysal Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Jose NOR*CAL Posts: 3,080	Re: arm swap for disc brakes 60 chevy The swap out posted by "mongo" will not work with the 60-62 trucks. Starting in 63 Chevy switched to a spring set up and they used diffrent A arms. You can do a complete cross member swap, or you can get spindles ( stock or lowered) with spindes beeing easiest to do, while some will say the cross meber is cheeper, take into account it would be wise to replace all bushings,ball joints, inspect or replace tie rods, calipers , rotors , hoses, bearins , seas etc. it can add up. One thing to keep in mind is the NEED to replace your master cylinder, this can be pricey ( 300.00-450.00)if you have a manual transmision. This is becuse the master cylinder controls ( on difrent resivours) the brakes and hydrulic clutch. I am leaning on the drop spindels on my 60. and fabing up a seprete brake and clutch master. Good luck keep us posted Last edited by slepysal; 07-18-2007 at 12:04 AM.