The General

[Doug Krebs]

I daily drove the blazer for a couple of years without an emergency break and for more than a couple with dual exhaust dumped before the rear axle without cats...

Ask around there should be places that will inspect them. There has to be a couple of places around with the abominations I've seen driving around.

[eight]

The calipers we put on Kurt's yj worked good. He just hooked the factory cables to the calipers I think. I know there were no major mods required. Just welded the brackets on and bolted up the calipers. I'm not sure exactly what the calipers came from, I heard from a caddie, but I got them off my front porch.

[TxCruzr]

I've always gotten the cruiser inspected at a place where I know the guy and they just slap a sticker on it, but when I took my truck to the quicker sticker place behind napa, all they did was check the actual brakes, horn, lights, and the gas cap so you might be able to get away with it. Everything I've read about the caddy brakes was that they were a PITA to get working and still didn't apply enough pressure to work well.

[jerryg79]

somewhere in the last week of checking out blazer sites, i found a guy pimping some brake stuff he was just coming out with. One of the deals was a handbrake that had its own mastercylinder to control a hydraulic emergency brake.

Supposedly it had some crap to avoid the bleed down of the hydraulics and apparently since it was a seperate hydraulic system it was legal for a handbrake.

It looked expensive though. I'll try to find the link tonight.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

It looked expensive though. I'll try to find the link tonight.

ehmmm, any luck on this???

Brian, hows it coming along BTW?

[colman]

i dropped his 60 off wed to have the r & p set up at j and p. so when he gets back into town it looks like we are going to be doing the 60 and 52" swap as well as crossover and hydro assist. already have all of the parts

[DRAGOONRANCH]

sweet, when do yall think you gonna be able to take her out on a test run?

[bcolman]

i am hopping for a test run by the end of jan, but realistically it will be mid feb i think

[Sharpe]

I wouldnt bother with the 63's in the rear. Stick with 56's for the better departure angle.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

i am hopping for a test run by the end of jan, but realistically it will be mid feb i think

Sweet. So you gonna have it ready for TCC then, right? I look forward to wheelin w/ this bad bitty.

Oh yeah, x2 on the 56"s, I have plenty of flex in them up front on da beast.

[bcolman]

I wouldnt bother with the 63's in the rear. Stick with 56's for the better departure angle.

i never planed on using 63's in the rear, it flexes pretty well with the stock spring right now so i thing that i am going to stick with the 52's in the rear for now, and maybe later if i feel that they are hindering me then i will switch to the 56's

[Sharpe]

Ah, misunderstood what Andrew said earlier.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I can't believe sharpe didn't hit on the "fact" that 52's flex as good as 56's w/ less axle wrap. This is a "fact" is well documented, just as anybody on texas4x4 or pbb.

[bcolman]

i got the front 60 installed today, now all i have to do is the steering (which i should get done on Monday) so it will be out on the trail again

[bcolman]

i finished up the steering and installed my winch, and took it out to 47 a few weeks ago, it did well but needed lower gears, so now i have to install my klune and 205 that i picked up this week, and button up some other things in time for trees.