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I'm new to this Forum. I'm trying to decide between putting a front disc brake conversion kit on, or getting parts from other cars to convert it. I'm a little hesitant to go for a kit due to the conversion brackets. Does anybody know what parts and from what cars I would need to put together to do this? Thanks for the help .
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I believe you can bolt in spindles and everything from '69' and '70' full size Fords. The compatibility may even extend past those years. Try a Google search and see what else pops up.
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here is a quote from another post
Daze wrote:
In 77 Ford started using a slightly different spindle that came on the LTD II and I believe all the other cars using the same spindle design including the t-bird (could be some year overlaf fotr the older design as Ford used up old parts). The newer spindle is almost identical to the previous one except the steering arm went back to the thickness of the early 60s drum brake spindles, meaning you can use a 60s era tie rod and the manufacturing tolerances were not as tight as previous years because these donor cars had more alignment adjustment. This means some spindles work and there are no camber issues and some do not. I have LTD II spindles on my Galaxie and setting the camber was not an issue. If you get spindles with camber issues than you need to totally relocate the UCA mounting bracket which is a bigger job than one might think. It has been my experience that the newer spindles work with out issue two out of three times.
Here is a repost of some general disc brake info it doesn't address the potential camber issues I already mentioned.
If you want "junk yard" disc brakes, a really good option is to get them off of:
1974-1979 Cougar
1974-1978 ford pass
1977-1979 LTD II
1974-1976 Montego
1974-1979 T-Bird
1974-1976 Torino
All of these cars should interchange with your Galaxie with little or no trouble or modification. Just be sure to grab all the parts from one car so you'll have a matched system. Also any disc brake system from any car in the "galaxie family" other than the ones above should fit however with early 70s cars you will probably encounter one issue, the steering arm on the disc brakes for later Galaxies (not listed above) including the LTDs and country squires is thicker than the standard Galaxie steering arm so when the tie rod goes through the hole you will be able to install the nut but not the pin. the fix is to grind about 1/16" to 1/8" off of the top of the steering arm. I did this on a pare of brakes I sold and all worked well.
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Thanks for the info fellas! I'll work on it and let you know what I come up. I'm sure I'll have some more questions during this project. I'll be learning as I go
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