94firstranger
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- 1994
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All,
I recently deviated from Rangers and bought a CJ7 to tinker with. The PO installed an 8.8 from an explorer. He welded the tubes and had Mitchell Differential build new axle shafts with a 5x5.5 bolt pattern to match the D44 in the front.
The axle has rotors drilled for this and I believe it has factory calipers, but I am a newb and am still learning so I may be wrong. The parking brake cable is not connected, and I see a spot for the tabs on the back of the brake, but the tabs are absent.
It may be a while until I can get into the brakes with a buddy. My question is this - do all 8.8 disc brakes have parking brakes shoes? I assume its possible to remove the shoes and still use the brakes normally, correct? I am trying to determine how much work is needed to get the parking brake working. Hopefully, I just need to add the tabs and connect the cables.
Not sure if pics would help, but here's a couple:
I recently deviated from Rangers and bought a CJ7 to tinker with. The PO installed an 8.8 from an explorer. He welded the tubes and had Mitchell Differential build new axle shafts with a 5x5.5 bolt pattern to match the D44 in the front.
The axle has rotors drilled for this and I believe it has factory calipers, but I am a newb and am still learning so I may be wrong. The parking brake cable is not connected, and I see a spot for the tabs on the back of the brake, but the tabs are absent.
It may be a while until I can get into the brakes with a buddy. My question is this - do all 8.8 disc brakes have parking brakes shoes? I assume its possible to remove the shoes and still use the brakes normally, correct? I am trying to determine how much work is needed to get the parking brake working. Hopefully, I just need to add the tabs and connect the cables.
Not sure if pics would help, but here's a couple: