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Originally Posted by 95 S_Trucker
There were elderado calipers on my truck when I got it. The parking brake didn't hold and the brakes didn't work to well. The pistons in the elderado caliper are just too small for a 3/4 or 1 ton truck. I ended up putting c20 calipers on the rear with my 14 bolt. It stops great now. So far, I have been fine without a parking brake. But I am still looking for options.
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Exactly! El Dorado/Tornado calipers didn’t work well on El Dorado’s and Tornado’s let alone on a big truck. I never bought into the eldo rear disk caliper swap business. I’ll stick with drums because I want to the truck to actually stop and have a park brake that actually works too
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Rear disk swaps are over rated IMOP
. Yes, drums are heavy but there is a lot of surface area to a bigarse 13" drum for friction material to grab. Look at all the class 8 semi's on the road....99% of them still use drums at all 6 positions as well as the trailer. Imagine that, drum brakes stopping an 80,000 lb rig but yet everybody needs rear disk on their little pickup.