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03-12-2009, 07:35 PM | #1 |
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Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
Would the above have drums or disks? It should be a open knuckle axle, correct?
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03-12-2009, 08:26 PM | #2 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
I believe 69 would have been closed knuckle and drum brakes.
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03-12-2009, 08:33 PM | #3 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
My 70 Jimmy was drum.
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03-12-2009, 11:45 PM | #4 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
70 should be open knuckle & drums.
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03-13-2009, 06:13 AM | #5 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
Blazers never came with closed knuckle front axles. The '69s and '70s came with an open knuckle drum brake setup.
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03-13-2009, 04:26 PM | #6 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
Thanks guys, that's what I was thinking.
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03-13-2009, 04:51 PM | #7 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
I assumed that drums meant closed knuckle. Did any chevy trucks come closed knuckle?
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03-13-2009, 05:23 PM | #8 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
Yes, '69 and older.
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03-13-2009, 06:47 PM | #9 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
I have a 69 blazer and a 70 jimmy both have u joints and drum brakes
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03-13-2009, 07:29 PM | #10 |
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03-14-2009, 04:05 PM | #11 |
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Re: Question about brakes on a 70 GMC blazer
FWIW, now that i know blazers and trucks are the same... 69 was a split year for the closed or open knuckle front ends. disk brakes started in 71. which makes as late 69 and 70 drum open knuckle front ends kind of a 1 off thing...
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