Part of rear drums is cost part of it is need.  You don't need as good of binders on the rear as the front cause of the whole weight transfer thing when braking.  If you had even small disks on the rear, you'd have to really run low pressure on them vs. the front to keep them from continuously locking up durring hard braking.

That said, doesn't anyone make a disk brake conversion for vanagons?

Heath

In a message dated Tue, 5 Sep 2000  1:27:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes:

<< Oh wise list,

Does anyone know why they still put drum brakes on cars?  If it's cost, what
is the cost difference between disk and drum?

If you haven't already guessed I just finished redoing the rear brakes on my
van.  I'm greasy, cut and irate.

TIA

Mike
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