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ABS for a hydraulic brake system is easy enough to do. ATC is a whole other ball game because there isn't an off the shelf ABS/ATC hydraulic controller sized for a medium duty truck that I am aware of. Secondly you would need in addition to the ABS hardware a steering angle input sensor and a...

Hydraulic parking brake system that can be added if wanted

Installing an ABS system makes the front / rear proportioning imbalance of the disc brake system not so much of a concern because the ABS system will take care of rear brake lock-up and allow full braking to the maximum amount of the traction allowed. To install the tone ring on each wheel can...

1.) Install Disc brakes ( or not your choice ) 2.) Install Hydra-Max booster ( or split your system with a dual system of your choosing ) 3.) Install wheel sensors at each front axle end, install wheel sensors on each wheel end of the middle tandem 4.) Install 4s/4m ABS module ( a nice frame...

Flipping the races sounds like a good idea but from personal experiance rebuilding electric motors for a living I can tell you that getting a race out then back in without damaging it is **** near if not impossible. We should replace the race and bearings as a unit but I doubt if many ever will...

Our hubs have the same race 3920 in the inner and the outer position. We use a 3992 or 3994 bearing in the inner position and a 392 bearing in the outer. This is fine and dandy on the day they are manufactured and makes keeping spares on the shelf easy as you only need one hub loaded with the...

Moving your hubs out for clearance. A bit of necro-threading but here is some information for those that are setting up their own front disc brakes. The "Magic" inner bearing /cup assembly to move your hubs outward for maximum clearance is the 3994 bearing with the 3926 race, It will result...

I have a good copy of the adapter design that he sent me. Where can I upload it to so everyone has access to it rather then sending it out one at a time.

Is this a reasonable possibility? Modified 5 ton axle shafts for the back and 2 1/2 ton inner - 5 ton outer hybrid front. Or something along those lines. It seems it will make the overall axle wider and will need a custom disc brake setup. My purpose for this is that I really want to get to a...

I have a nice looking LDT flywheel to start chopping on now from 91W350 so I guess I need to find the time to get it to machine shop to be modified for the flat plate style pressure plate assembly.

Well Looking at the LDT flywheel drawing it looks like it could be ground down flat then have a 14" pressure plate drilled into it. The starter ring being so close to the crankshaft flange center-line will require a spacer for the starter or a different starter. I am keeping the 5-ton bell...

I haven't really looked into machining one to fit until now. I was hoping to find a flywheel that would fit with little or no modifications but that option is not looking so good any more. The drawing that you sent of the LDS looks like it might be able to be machined but maybe the LDT flywheel...

The Cummins flywheel is so close but the drive flange mating area is too large and the bolt circle is wrong. I can redrill the bolt circle and get past that issue but will need to machine the drive flange mating area flat then cut a new pocket for the flange to index into. When talking with...

This is the flywheel I have decided on. It is a flat disc not a dish or pot style. Cummins NT855, N14 Flywheel 3071535 Flat Design with 10" Opening 6 Mounting Bolt Holes & 2 Threaded Holes Use a 15" Clutch With 10 Springs (10" Opening) 306 Thrust Bearing 17" Ring Gear With 103 Teeth Cross...

I think changing the starter or ring gear would be the way to go. It looks like the N14, NT855, and the LDS-465 are all internally balanced with a zero balanced flywheel - thats why the holes are evenly spaced on the crankshaft with none offset to index the flywheel. Anyone have a flywheel...