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This is kind of a follow-up to my thread asking advice on front brakes & steering. Thought I would start a new thread, considering it's all new work being done. Never really got the front brakes dialed in to my liking & had purchased a disc brake conversion kit from Charlie at the end of last year. I was waiting for a good time to install it (at the time, I was re-wiring the car, adding dual carbs/intake, headers/dual exhaust, & new fuel line) and wanted to get the car running again before jumping into more projects on the car. I noticed when I first removed the front wheels, both sides were right hand threaded lugs. This is not right....right???????? I removed all the front brake parts, steering arms/tie rods (tie rods/drag link end, etc. will be replaced), master cylinder & cleaned/prepped parts for paint. I had to enlarge the 2 bottom holes in the steering knuckles for the disc brakes conversion plates. I tried to cut a fat hog & drill them on the car (since the king pins seemed nice-without any slop), and, well, they moved a little & I didn't end up with a clean hole for the new threads. I ended up removing them, used a drill press & installed heli-coils-oh well, lesson learned-don't cut corners. Installed a new king pin package also. Honed the m/c, installed all new internals, made a new cover gasket, & buttoned it up-ALL new brake lines to follow (& probably look at the rear wheel cylinders/brakes too). Painted all the steering parts & installed the ends. Installed the rotors/calipers. Still need to re-install the m/c, but waiting to rebuild the steering box & reinstall it-which I removed yesterday (a whole new can of worms-so to speak) with ugly pics to follow. I'll start with a few pics of the front brakes & m/c-before. By the way, Charlie is so helpful. I had a few different questions at different times, e-mailed him & within a few hours, he responded-even during the evening. GREAT GUY! Thanks Charlie.

Was looking at wheels/rims etc and started to wonder about how hard compatible brake parts would be to find for my '47 Dodge Sedan. I see many posts about disc brakes, and mentioning of a 'Rusty Hope Disc Brake Conversion Kit'... not sure if the best route or not so figured I'd ask: - Are drum parts for my car easy to find? (USA model, but I'm in Canada) - Is it worth while to convert to disc? - Any advantages towards being able to find rims? (ie, higher offset, lug pattern change) - How difficult is it? Like is the kit a full kit? or a kit that has a few parts, the rest of the conversion requires chopping the front end off another car or something?