Disc brake conversion problem

[67sportfuryIII]

I am converting my 1967 Sport Furys front drum brakes to disc. I have installed 73 disc spindles, bearings, dust seal, new rotors pads and calipers. new parts were ordered for a 1973 Fury everything went together fine until I went to put the pads in the outer pad will not fit and I can not figure out why. Has anyone else run into this problem? can anyone see something I am missing? am I using the wrong calipers? I have to wait until Monday to go get my cores back to see if they measure different than the ones I replaced them with.

 

[Wollfen]

I'm going to hazard a guess, but to me, it looks like you haven't bottomed out the piston in the caliper yet.

 

[67sportfuryIII]

I'm going to hazard a guess, but to me, it looks like you haven't bottomed out the piston in the caliper yet.

Piston is forsure bottomed out there is a gap between the piston and the inner pad. Im pretty sure it has to be the wrong calipers, but this is the second one I got from two different parts stores.

 

[Wollfen]

Hmm, well the calipers look right to me, certainly the same as the setups I have in my cars. Something is screwy for sure, but unless we have detail pics of a setup already working, I think we cant see it.

 

[Xenon]

Take a pic showing the piston fully retracted please....

 

[67sportfuryIII]

Take a pic showing the piston fully retracted please....

That last pic is it fully retracted

 

[Zymurgy]

I did exactly the same conversion you did I had to take a grinder 2 the pads because they didn't fit in quite right if I remember I just took a 16th off.

I will look back to my notes when I get home make sure we're on the same page

 

[Xenon]

That last pic is it fully retracted

I will ask again.
Take a pic of the caliper off the car showing the piston retracted....
Can only help someone who is willing to help themselves..
I am looking for more than just piston location..

 

[67sportfuryIII]

I did exactly the same conversion you did I had to take a grinder 2 the pads because they didn't fit in quite right if I remember I just took a 16th off.

I will look back to my notes when I get home make sure we're on the same page

I had read that in a few threads on here but I feel like I shouldn’t have to grind the pads to get them to fit with all factory parts.

 

[Zymurgy]

I had read that in a few threads on here but I feel like I shouldn’t have to grind the pads to get them to fit with all factory parts.

I know it does make sense but, it did and the pads were off the shelf made in China probably from Auto Zone.

Here is my assembled conversion if this helps.

 

[67sportfuryIII]

I will ask again.
Take a pic of the caliper off the car showing the piston retracted....
Can only help someone who is willing to help themselves..
I am looking for more than just piston location..

here is off the car.

 

[67sportfuryIII]

Ok I think I have it sorted out now. Thanks for all the input and suggestions. turns out it is the wrong caliper. There is about a 1/8 difference in the caliper between the B body and C body calipers. After getting the wrong ones from two parts stores I went back and got my cores back to measure and sure enough that is why the outer pad would not fit. I will just be rebuilding the calipers I have.

 

[Zymurgy]

They are always trying to sell us B body stuff. It makes it tough when they appear identical and you don't have a core to compare them to.

 

[67sportfuryIII]

They are always trying to sell us B body stuff. It makes it tough when they appear identical and you don't have a core to compare them to.[/QUOT
Yeah good thing I had something to measure, Im sure I would still be trying to figure it out if I didn't.

 

[mr. fix it]

Glad to see you are on the right path now

 

[Snotty]

Ok I think I have it sorted out now. Thanks for all the input and suggestions. turns out it is the wrong caliper.

That was going to be my question: do you have the right one? I ran into the same problem. I was at the parts shop where I bought them arguing with the salesman that things were not fitting. My buddy, "Big Chris," a professional mechanic, came in at that moment, saw what was in my hand an said, "Why did you sell Scott a B Body Caliper; he has a C."

Thanks Buddy!!! Everything worked well once I had the right calipers.

 

[stubs300]

I had read that in a few threads on here but I feel like I shouldn’t have to grind the pads to get them to fit with all factory parts.

You earned that Red X with that statement. Factory parts or not, your putting 73 parts on a 67 that didn't originally come with it, there's always some form of modification's that need to be done. Good Luck

 

[67sportfuryIII]

Yeah I understand that completely and totally agree with you, However 73 rotors with 73 calipers, on 73 disc brake spindles should take 73 brake pads with out modification.

 

[sixpkrt]

I can't tell from the pic, but does the conversion kit include, or need, the positioning clips that go on the back side of the caliper where the pin slides through?
I got these a few years ago from Harmon.

 

[thrashingcows]

I had the exact same issue on my 68 T/C wagon when I went 73 disc swap, but only had that issue on one side. Took me a few days of hair pulling to figure out that the rebuild company had put a B-body caliper in a C-body box. Got a new one and all slid together properly.

Glad you got it sorted out!