I didn’t pull anything out of my backside, Only off different websites and the Ranger station posts. I read some articles (one of them yours) discussing the subject and googling up drum to disc conversion. I can assure I’m not a bot.
Don't think I said you were a bot, pretty certain I said scammer or shill. I'll be happy to be wrong about that. We've certainly had problems with them in the past and one of their moves was to sneak bogus or questionable links into their posts. Sometimes they have no link or a legitimate link in the original version of the post then replace it later with the questionable link.
My point being there are different options out there.
My point being that there aren't. It's the Mustang brake swap or something based on the Mustang brake swap.
SSBC is the Mustang disc swap with extra parts. While Wilwood offers drum to disc conversions, it doesn't offer a conversion kit for the Ranger axle. PowerStop doesn't offer conversion kits, they do upgraded components for stock brakes and maybe big brake kits for some vehicles. I'm going to ignore the other company, made my opinion about them clear in the last post.
Posts like that saying that they are available from these companies are just going to cause people coming here to ask about them because a post said that they were available. If you've found something else that we don't know about, please share it and post links to the product or an article/thread discussing it. If it is some place like Facebook a screen shot would be nice because everyone can't see stuff due to how its setup.
Hell, if you find something, create a new thread about it so we can have a full blown discussion and give it the consideration it disserves. I like hearing about and discussing new products for these even if I'm not going to use it myself.
To be clear, I'm not against the Mustang swap. I'm more likely to swap in an Explorer axle, because I prefer the drum parking brake for a truck, the other perks of that axle, and I have a couple of them lying around. The most likely way I'd do the Mustang swap is if I built a drift truck, and it wouldn't quite be per the article because I'd run a dual caliper setup in the rear. one for regular brake and the other for hand brake. I'm more likely to pick up a 4.0L manual Mustang to do that with. Install a Moddbox supercharger kit, thrash it, then when it's hit the walls a few too many times it'll be parts for Ranger based projects. (Transmission for a 2.8L based project, engine rebuilt and dropped in Mom's (formerly dad's) 2002 with the moddbox.)
I’ve only just started looking at it, and that is what I found and saw by looking on the internet. I would certainly talk to providers of the products and do further research before I would spend my money. Interestingly enough, I enjoyed your post on 05/04/2024 discussing some of this. Have a good day sir.
Verify that what you are finding isn't for the newer 2019+ Rangers, because more companies do offer stuff for those and it still turns up when searching for the older Rangers.
In that post replying to
a thread where someone asked about the SSCB kit, I said basically the same thing as above about the conversion. It's a packaged Mustang brake swap kit with extra parts.
Now once you convert to the Mustang brake setup, you can use any brake kit meant to bolt in place of the factory brakes those, but you have to have the bones (primarily the mounting plate) of the conversion first. I may have said something along those lines. I've definitely said something along those lines regarding the front brake upgrades on the TIB 2wd trucks.