I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a Rear Drum to Disk parts swap that I'm contemplating.
My van as stated in the title is 1997 E350 regular length but I will be adding some weight. Figure 750 lbs inside and carry another 750 outside for DRZ400 on a carrier with an external storage box (stock with bench seats removed is 5800 lbs). I will be upgrading to rear airbags and upgraded sway bars front and back so I'm hoping to at least minimize the detrimental effects to the panic-stopping performance and possibly even improve in this fully weighted condition.
Rear Disks on a 2002 E250 with Dyna 60 35 Spline C-Clip BOM=606752-1
to swap onto my
Rear Drum on a 1997 E350 with Dyna 60 32 Spline FF BOM=605948-1
https://www.crawlpedia.com/dana_60_bom.htm
Pictures of the Rear ends and disk brakes are attached (E350 is pained the E250 is rusted). It appears that even though the E250 axle is C-Clip (semi-floating???), it has a flange welded to the end of the axles housing to mount the caliper supports.
So I recently had a crazy hour driver T bone the nose of my E350 build project and I picked up this 2002 E250 for $1800 for parts and noticed it had the rear Disks and an aluminum Driveshaft.
First and foremost looking to improve braking without breaking the bank. The cheapest solution is this swap works is to just clean up the disks and put on new pads and go with that.
A new step up would be to go to aftermarket drilled and slotted disks (approx $600)
A step above that is to upgrade the calipers but I would not want to go much higher in cost if that can be avoided.
P.S. I found this thread but seems to be the identical rear end as mine but this thread is more to do with third member upgrades rather than the disk brake upgrade.
https://www.sportsmobileforum.com/fo...ide-12683.html
This link has good brake info, but to start I want to just confirm that the parts I have at hand (described above) will work.
https://www.sportsmobileforum.com/fo...ded-29389.html
https://www.sportsmobileforum.com/fo...ide-12683.html