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Re: Drum brakes to disc brakes 444-544 1959

posted by  someone claiming to be Leonard on  Sat Sep 15 04:54 CST 2001 [RELATED]

There is a detailed description as well on the vclassics.com page.

It is a pretty straight-forward job as Pete says. I am almost dead positive that none of the PV's ever had disc brakes. Having "been there, done that", I would offer up a bit of my experience. Unless you have the time and the money and the know how to do the conversion, rebuild and replace the shoe set up. They will and do work very well. For most of us in daily drivers, we will never tax the drums to the point they let us down. If you have brake failures, it almost assuredly is the master cylinder for you to loose them "all" at once. Even with the disc set up, if you loose the master, you still loose all the brakes. All of the parts are readily available and are substantially less expensive than converting to discs.

I am putting together my 544 for my daughter, and I am staying with the drums on her car. I have discs on all four corners of my 444 and honestly, there isn't much difference. You are welcome to email me direct if you would like some pictures and such. Keep in mind I am just a "good ole boy with a really red neck" that just happens to like to tinker on things and what I have done may not be what you or anyone should or shouldn't do.

Leonard





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