[GAmes]

Great and through job on the brakes.

Unrelated question, is the lower bracket for your air bag mounts upside down? Like shouldn't the flat side of the red circled brackets below be touching the springs and not the raised edges?

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The mounts are correct.

Edit; I looked at the top, not the bottom. My mounts have U-bolts that go under the leaf so you might be correct.

 

[GAmes]

I’m looking forward to getting rid of the drums.

Tell us how much you like the discs after buying all that stuff, plus a different proportioning valve, and attempting to make the park brake to work.

 

[GAmes]

Cost and general PIA aside , the parking brake on the disc brake Dana 80 in my drw f350 worked pretty good. Same for the disc Sterling axles in the f250 and excursion.

I don't doubt that. The Fords' parking brakes were designed from the cab to the axle. There wasn't any need to design and fabricate anything to make them work properly.

 

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The drums that I hate on my truck are currently working great. If I could find someone to turn drums this size it would take away some of my hate.

If they are working great why are you wanting to turn them or replace them? I was somewhere in the 800,000 mile range before I had to even remove my drums, much less replace them. I only had to because a wheel seal started leaking and I had to replace the shoes. The drums were replaced as well, " just because."

 

[GAmes]

There are two advantages to disc brakes, neither of which is they stop the vehicle better. They cool quicker so you won't get brake fade as quickly and they are less liable to get contaminated by grease or water. For the record, the tires stop the vehicle, not the brakes. No traction, no stopping.