Mustang rear disc brake conversion - at last

[mikkelstuff]

I finally completed the Mustang rear brake conversion on my 2002 Ranger 4WD XLT following the excellent guide on this web site:

http://www.therangerstation.com/how...-ranger-bronco-ii-rear-disc-brake-conversion/

I went with 2002 Mustang GT vented rotors.

What to me should have been a one day job took me a full three days with plenty of frustration - all due to a few very subtle gottchas. Well such are vehicle upgrades. At least it didn't require the usual blood sacrifice but I certainly used up my stockpile of expletives.

I still have some clean up to do - correct length steel brake lines and the stupid emergency brake cable system (why no length adjustment is beyond me. Must have saved Ford a good 25 cents per truck). {Oh yes, forgot - the drum brakes had separate automatic adjusters for the emergency brakes. This will take a new plan.)

Still in all, this truck has never had brakes this good since I inherited it from my Dad in 2015.

 

[pjtoledo]

if you look up the specs, the Mustang's rear rotor center hole is about .002" smaller than the Ranger's rear drum center hole. that's why it needed some persuasion to fit.

 

[mikkelstuff]

Thanks pjtoledo. Wish the website instructions had noted that fact.

I've kept an extensive list of photos and notes from this project which I will have to post somewhere - particularly the gottchas.