I want to disc my 62 Caddy!

What do I need to look for to convert the front drums to disc on my 62 Coupe Deville?

 

here are my plans.
go find a 69 caddy in a junkyard, pull the rotors, calipers and backing plates off. they will bolt right up to the existing 62 spindles, no need to replace those. This is a one year only conversion. You can actually get new rotors and calipers for pretty cheap at www.rockauto.com but you just need those backing plates.

The other thing will of course be to swap out the master if yours hasn't been changed to a dual resevoir system. There is a whole bunch of info over at this website for 61-62 caddy owners...

http://groups.msn.com/1961-62CadillacCommunity/general.msnw

I plan on doing mine this spring, I found the 69 parts allready and my master has allready been swapped. Can't wait for more stopping power!

bryan

 

Mine has also already been swapped! I didn't relize it would be this easy to change up, I wish I didn't spend the money on brake cyclinders last fall

 

Same question, but for a 59 Caddy.

 

Now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, what do the calipers bolt up too? What about the hubs?

 

From what I understand. The backing plate mounts to the spindle and the caliper mounts to the backing plate. Pull the drum assembly and the rotor should mount the same way and supposedly uses the same wheel bearings and everything. A few guys have done these on that message board link I put in on my last post. Supposedly it's a one day swap but you have to have new brake lines made.

bryan

 

I read a few posts on there today, pretty cool site. Thanks for the link!

Have brake lines made? Bah, I can do that Definatly gonna check it out, will probably buy everything new and find a backing plate at the local yard