Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:17 am by WEW51L110
You mentioned you are keeping the drum brakes with the stock front axle. While I’m not anywhere close to being an expert about this topic, I can recognize an area of concern. Most combination brake set-ups are disc front/drum rear and the master cylinder is configured that way. It would seem backward to me to have drum brakes front/disc brakes rear as the rear brakes, generally speaking, require less pressure to achieve the braking response needed. Or, to put it another way, ideally, you’d want the best braking ability on the front brakes due to weight shift on sudden braking situations. Most dual braking systems are set up to send slightly higher pressure to the front brakes than to the rear brakes through the proportioning valve. So, to my way of thinking, you’d want to have the disc brakes on the front and drum brakes on the rear if you’re not going 4 wheel discs. At least when mfgs. started offering disc brakes, it was front discs, rear drums. If you’re going 4 wheel discs, then forget I said anything as long as you don’t forget that proportioning valve.
L110 owner since 1974, finally rebuilt 2014.