Cascade Crew

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: My new project

So i posted this before but it is no longer here.

I picked up that 9 bolt posi disc brake rear for $80. it also has the 3.45 gears in it. The catch is the spider gears are munched so i need a new posi carrier.
BUT i already picked up a 3 series posi carrier off ebay for $60 shipped. That should be here soon and then i get to begin piecing together my newest project!
Is there anything else i may need to make this work? I know i need a proportioning valve to change brake bias, Ian mentioned he may have one somewhere. But is there anything else that i'm missing?

~JAKE

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

Did your ring and pinion come with an installation kit? If not you may want to consider that. Are you going to do the install?

-Schultzy

blue89 · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

I thought that because of the bearings you had to keep the carrier with its case? Isn't there something funny with the BW rears?

The drums work on less pressure than the disks do, so if you do a swap without a prop valve the rears just won't work that well. Not terrible. I'm just saying that you can do the axle swap and then do the prop valve swap later. Check out my vee-six cardomain site to see what I did for a valve. You might want to copy my setup.

Xophertony · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject:

i had to do the same thing. mine however looks like a huge freaking mess because i can not make a flair for shizzle. be carefull. i ended up going to the junkyard to get a new rear hardline because i screwed up my old one so bad.

blue89 · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

Lol, mine came together perfect the first time. No leaks! I was thinking to myself, "Is it really this easy?". Then my dad told me how lucky I was cause he had lots of horror stories of pipes splitting or not sealing right. I got lucky I guess.

Took me a LONG time to find all the damn adapters and pieces I needed.

iansane · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

Did you just eliminate the prop valve altogether and run an adjustable rear?

iansane · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

Nice!

What brand linelock kit?

Ian, your garage picture stull shows the prop valve. You removed it since then eh?

STEEL · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:34 am Post subject:

Well, I just did the same swap Jake, I love it! The posi makes a huge difference Smile

I did the prop valve and the rear at the same time and it came together just fine, no hick ups. The only thing is that my parking brake still doesnt work.

blue89 · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:20 am Post subject:

Same here, front is 100%, rear is on the prop. I should have done a line lock though, that would have been fun.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

STEEL · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

So how hard to do is a line lock? I would love to set one up for my car....

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

no harder then the propvalve. you will need to cut the line going to your front brakes, flair both ends, and plug in a line lock between them. flairs are tough to do, but i am told once you get the hang of it they are "easy". that said i never got the hang of it. every singe one i have ever tried has not sealed. most were visibly lop sided. the ones i have tried on new brake line always work, the ones i try on old factory lines always fail.

it can be done with adapters, so you don't need to flair anything, but this will probably double the cost of the brake line portion of the job.

STEEL · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

I dont know what you mean by "flaring" the brake lines.

Al Hasse · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

Basically you spread the end of the line out with a small tool so that you can screw a connection over it.

*Edit: Al beat me to it. Laughing

iansane · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject:

Forgot to post the picture when I got home, but you still can't really see anything. It's in the top right corner. The master is out of the picture but you can see the one line going down to the linelock mounted on the strut tower and the other line heading to the also not pictured prop valve mounted down in front of the battery.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:38 am Post subject:

So my new carrier arrived in the mail today!! YEAH so in about a week, when i'm done with finals and on break i can start playing with my new toy! Smile

~JAKE