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Will 1979 620 disc brakes bolt up to a 74’


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It’s not a bolt on. Do a little googlin and you quickly find out that the two easy options are mklotz and Beebani’s brackets that retain the kingpins and allow you to use hardbody spindles for the disc brakes. Other more involved options are custom control arms or welding on the front frame section from a later truck to gain ball joints as well as disc brakes

 

I’m using the beebani stuff. Went from drum/king pin/torsion bar -> disc/ball joint/coilovers. Not cheap

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Mike's parts are top notch I have several of them and not a problem with any of them.

 

if you look at the king pin trucks and the look at the ball joint trucks the tower that the shocks and the upper control arm bolt to on the ball joint trucks is slanted and the tower on the king pin trucks is square to the frame rail.  this is the reason it is not a bolt up grade with stock parts.

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It's never a waste of time learning something and lots of people may read this and learn something too.

True, but I’m just rehashing an old topic. It has changed slightly since new products have hit the market.

 

For my next trick I’m going to try to shove a different radiator in my truck...

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All of the Beebani parts I have had experience with have led to problems installing them.  His parts are cheaper in cost than Mike's.

 

My brother and I helped AZhitman with installation of Beebani's 4 link, upper and lower control arms, and Coil over setup and AZhitman is going to have to redesign the frontend parts to be able to get any travel in the front suspension. 

 

No I will not buy Beebani parts.

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