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Subject:Re: upgrading brakes in 83.5
From:kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Date:Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:38:40 -0400

Stock rears are very simple to work on if you use the Bentley as a
reference.  If you don't, people put them back together wrong.

Yes, rear discs have less parts and less chance of putting them together
wrong.

 Not sure if this is a viable selling point when you are talking about
spending hundreds of dollars to convert, versus the much cheaper stock rear
drums.  They would have to change themselves for me to spend that money.
Unless I had a Subaru SVX with twin turbos.  Then you need all the stopping
you can get. 😀

Ken

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 10:30 PM Miguel Pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Kenneth Wilford, I’ll take a shot at answering your ‘why’ question. Because
> they are easier to work on.
> --
> *Miguel*
>
> *The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it- basically because
> you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. *
> *- Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary*
>