Brake Improvements

Braided stainless steel brake lines

   Replace your cracked and dry rotted rubber flexable brake lines
with stainless steel.Here are a few reasons for choosing 
stainless steel over rubber lines.
*The stainless steel will never dry rot or crack
* with a smaller inside diameter the caliper will have higher line
 pressure
* Rubber lines expand ever so slightly when the brakes are applied. 
The braided lines do not expand wich gives the brakes a much 
more firm pedal feel.
* The Stainless will not tear or puncture as easy as rubber lines
* Braided stainless steel lines cost about the same as rubber lines

  Disk Brake Conversion

Scout IIs were first introduced with drum brakes
 and Dana 30 front axles.Dana 30 and Dana 44
axles use the same balljoints and the same taper 
tie rod ends.Swaping to disk brakes is a bolt on 
swap using components from a later model
Scout. You must change the proportioning valve,
the hard brake line on the front of the frame
and the flexible lines to the new calipers.
Bolt on Dana 44 steering knuckels and the
rest is the same as the late model Scouts.
The drum brake wheels wil not work on the 
truck now equippes with disk brakes.The early 
wheels are 5.5" and will not clear the calipers.
The wheels starting in 74 are 6" wide for the
calipers.

    Flush your braking system

 With the newest Scout on the road being 16 years old the
 fluid needs to be flushed. Years of rust, scale and debris
 collects in the brake lines inhibiting the sytem to working its
 full potential.The easiest way to flush your brake lines is by 
opening up the bleeder screws and  let gravity do the work.
 Keep the brake resivoir full with fresh fluid.Use dot 3 fluid
 or better.Repeat this untill you fluid that is coming out is clean. 
Expect to use a few containers of new brake fluid. Remember 
NEVER use anything on the fasteners or bolts to lubricate  the
 threads on the brake system except brake fliud.If you do the
 fluid will be contaminated and will cause problems.