1966 olds Toronado disc brakes
January 4th, 2017, 08:10 AM
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1966 olds Toronado disc brakes
I have a 1966 Toronado, want to change front drum brakes to disc. What year of Toronado's can I choose from. From what I've read, I need upper control arm, spindle, caliper and caliper mounting hardware. Also wheels, brake booster and master cylinder, with lines.
January 4th, 2017, 10:54 AM
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69-73 Toronado and Eldorado are pretty much a bolt-in. 74-78 will work using outer tierod ends and ball joints for those years. You will need to get the proportioning valve from the disc brake donor car as drum cars do not have it. That or get a Wilwood adjustable one.
June 5th, 2017, 07:18 AM
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Mike, you PMed me and mentioned that you found two different ball joints when converting your Toronado to front disc. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics of this conversion. I do know that upper ball joints provided by manufacturers for many Oldsmobile applications are either a wrong part number; or at the very least, a cheap Chinesium part.
Not to complicate things; however, I know the B/C bodies during the 60s had two different tie rod ends (Sagniaw and Tecumseh). They had a different taper and different measurements and aren't interchangeable. I'm not sure if this applies to the difficulty you're having with your Toro. Let us know what's up.
Not to complicate things; however, I know the B/C bodies during the 60s had two different tie rod ends (Sagniaw and Tecumseh). They had a different taper and different measurements and aren't interchangeable. I'm not sure if this applies to the difficulty you're having with your Toro. Let us know what's up.
June 5th, 2017, 02:41 PM
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Mike, you PMed me and mentioned that you found two different ball joints when converting your Toronado to front disc. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics of this conversion. I do know that upper ball joints provided by manufacturers for many Oldsmobile applications are either a wrong part number; or at the very least, a cheap Chinesium part.
Not to complicate things; however, I know the B/C bodies during the 60s had two different tie rod ends (Sagniaw and Tecumseh).
FYI that "Thompson" was the "T" in TRW (Ramo and Wooldridge were the two satellite guys, Thompson was the car guy).
September 11th, 2017, 03:17 PM
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Here is a page with a lot of information on this subject - I am planning this project myself too
http://www.breznick.com/toronado/brakes/index.htm
http://www.breznick.com/toronado/brakes/index.htm
September 20th, 2017, 12:12 PM
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Kanter AUTO PARTS sell kits for this. Look in their Catalogue. I just noticed the other night as I was looking myself for a kit. About $1,200 bucks
September 20th, 2017, 12:51 PM
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