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as mark well knows, my brakes are shit.

so, what have others done to upgrade theres?

ive got disc front and drum back

Watching Sadam last weekend, he nearly used a well placed (i.e stuck )Surf to halt our lack of brakes while on the hill!!
First time in many years I have bailed from a vehicle. I was surprised by the lack of holding ability. Can you upgrade to GQ brakes?? Or maybe throw some disk's on the rear?
After looking at Sadam's brakes while he was pulling the half shaft on sunday I was suprised by the small size of the disk. There looked like plenty of room to fit a larger one. I know that they fit hilux brakes to the fj40's but the 70's have them anyway.
Would a bigger booster help?? Or are the stantrd booster's ok??
My 2c worth ( so far )

curly12 wrote:First time in many years I have bailed from a vehicle. I was surprised by the lack of holding ability. Can you upgrade to GQ brakes?? Or maybe throw some disk's on the rear?
After looking at Sadam's brakes while he was pulling the half shaft on sunday I was suprised by the small size of the disk. There looked like plenty of room to fit a larger one. I know that they fit hilux brakes to the fj40's but the 70's have them anyway.
Would a bigger booster help?? Or are the stantrd booster's ok??
My 2c worth ( so far )

havnt a clue, thats why im asking.

Watching Sadam last weekend, he nearly used a well placed (i.e stuck )Surf to halt our lack of brakes while on the hill!!

yeah, i was watching, good show. then it was my turn and almost rolled back in to mark with the breaks on full, lucky i had it in gear so i jumped on the gas, other wise my back door may have looked like the front end of a nissan, that would have sucked!

But as expected your toyota's ass would have been saved by a Nissan!!!! ( no surprise there!! )
I am looking at an offroad vehicle at the moment and would like to know the answer to this question as well.

Yep 70's have shit brakes , I had mine overhauled earlier this year and Grant Guy told me they came out of the factory undersized and what you get is what you get

all the 70 series stuff is basicly hilux brakes

he said they put larger 80 series stuff on all their cruisers :thumright:

ill have to keep an eye out for an 80 then, thanks SH

basics wrote:ill have to keep an eye out for an 80 then, thanks SH

Sig's wrecking one but I'm sure the brakes are already spoken for... If not I get first option on them coz I'm older

"you old bastard"

might have to visit a few wreckers then

sadam u would get first option if i dont use them BUT there is a 99.9% chance i,m gunna build up a new front diff using a 60 housing ,80 front cvs and brakes and locker out of 80 rear .but good things take time. I still haven,t finished it enough to give it a good thrashing yet .took it out to whitemans valley the other weekend (for about 2 hours ) and a bloody tree got in my way and wouldn,t move ,so i tried again and it still wouldn't move but it f@cked my new bumper that i hadn't even finished making yet . i was well pissed

not exactly a easy job to swap 80 cvs and brakes onto a 70 series housing. 80 series steering is different to 70 so arms need to be cut and messed around with to make them work. swivel housing stubs are different size as well. would need turning down to fit 70 housing

nothings every staright forwad damn it.

anthing thing else that swaps straight over?

I know someone doing a 70 series brake mod kit, I'll find our how its goin.......yep mine are the same even with discs all the way round.

Jerry wrote:yep mine are the same even with discs all the way round.

you mean shit? hahah

Jerry wrote:I know someone doing a 70 series brake mod kit, I'll find our how its goin.......yep mine are the same even with discs all the way round.

And I was going to ask if you needed a winch bitch on Sunday.............

Jerry wrote:
yep mine are the same even with discs all the way round.


you mean shit? hahah

Yeah...its all these hilux parts in it