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| Re: [GMCnet] Toronado Drum to Disk Conversion [message #200292 is a reply to message #200280] |
Fri, 01 March 2013 19:48   |
Ken Henderson
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That's quite an article. I'd never heard that they'd tried dual pistons.
Stick and I removed the 3.21 FD from his coach today to replace the
back-to-back seals, which I thought was the source of his ATF leak. It
turned out that the top portion of the FD/Transmission gasket was in bad
shape but the seal looked perfect (well centered, resilient rubber, and no
side play on pinion shaft). So I've decided against fixing sumthin' that
ain't broke. We'll install with the new gasket tomorrow and HOPE. I
haven't yet found the weep hole for those back-to-back seals, so I really
don't know where his leak was from. We may have not accomplished anything.
:-(
Ken H.
Americus, GA
'76 X-Birchaven w/Cad500/Howell EFI+ & EBL
www.gmcwipersetc.com
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Robert Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> G'day,
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> I stumbled on to this article looking for info on
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> http://www.breznick.com/toronado/brakes/index.htm
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> Scroll down until you come to the info on the dual piston calipers on the
> 1968 Toronado!
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> Regards,
> Rob M.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Toronado Drum to Disk Conversion [message #200298 is a reply to message #200293] |
Fri, 01 March 2013 20:45 |
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USAussie
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He must be one of those guys P.T. referred to! ;-)
Regards,
Rob M.
-----Original Message-----
From: A.
The bottom of the page says he paid for 90 hours of labor. At $80 per hour, that's $7,200 for labor. he paid $1,400 for parts.
That's $8,600 to convert his old Toronado front brakes from drums to discs.
I would happily sell my 1973 23' Sequoia at that price.
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