drum brakes on safari??

muskie · Post by **muskie** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:37 pm

i bought a very very tidy, very cheap but high kms (300,000) 1994 manual swb safari the other day, excellent engine even at high kms pulls like a train with no smoke, nz new but the thing i found odd is it has drum brakes on the rear also has swaybar front and rear, i have never seen drums on a saf before, anyone else have them???

nuts · Post by **nuts** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:53 am

only truck ive had with drum brakes was 1986 lwb 3.3 ltr havnt heard of anything as late as yours with them

doddzee · Post by **doddzee** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:59 am

What interior spec does it have? Some aussie patrols right through to 97 had drums on the rear on there base spec models. Never heard of a safari having drums.

The rear end could have been swapped for a base spec patrol one?

nuts · Post by **nuts** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:36 am

maybee someone did a body swap

GQTROL · Post by **GQTROL** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:13 am

muskie wrote:i bought a very very tidy, very cheap but high kms (300,000) 1994 manual swb safari the other day, excellent engine even at high kms pulls like a train with no smoke, nz new but the thing i found odd is it has drum brakes on the rear also has swaybar front and rear, i have never seen drums on a saf before, anyone else have them???

Have seen drums on GQ Safari's but usually late 87 or early 88, so they do exist.

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:40 pm

My 1990 NZ new Patrol had drums on rear from factory. Running rear disks now though.

muskie · Post by **muskie** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:42 pm

tgaguy1 wrote:My 1990 NZ new Patrol had drums on rear from factory. Running rear disks now though.

was it much trouble to change to discs, axle swap or just the discs,mounts and calipers, did you need anything else??

muskie · Post by **muskie** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:48 pm

doddzee wrote:What interior spec does it have? Some aussie patrols right through to 97 had drums on the rear on there base spec models. Never heard of a safari having drums.

The rear end could have been swapped for a base spec patrol one?

low spec interior, nz new but it is badged as a patrol/safari, its a minor thing really not that bothered, just found it odd. i am really pleased with the truck and conditionally alot better than my last. can always upspec things as i go.

tgaguy1 · Post by **tgaguy1** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:54 pm

muskie wrote:
tgaguy1 wrote:My 1990 NZ new Patrol had drums on rear from factory. Running rear disks now though.

was it much trouble to change to discs, axle swap or just the discs,mounts and calipers, did you need anything else??

Easy. Just changed the whole diff assy to a disk braked one. Didn't look to see if the disks can be changed over to the drum diff assy.

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