My F100 Is FINALLY Back On The Ground! *Disk Brake Upgrade!* 

Big thanks for the Shout out! I appreciate it alot Craig! Keep up the great content!

When setting the front wheel bearings.. you are supposed to spin the rotor while tightening the nut, to the torque spec,ed then back the nut off 1/4 turn. This ensures the bearings seat properly.

Not to point out the obvious, but I think you forgot the dust shield, its actually needed to protect the inner seal and bearing

I've been following you for a while now and love what you're doing. Just wanted to say, THANKS!!!! You lit a fire. At 40 years older than you I just picked up a 1977 F100 with a non running 351, no reverse, but no rust. Here we go again. LOL

Looks Great Disc Brakes Awesome. My First Vehicle a 62 Ford Pickup F100 Stepside. I was 16 it had a 292 V8 a 4 Speed and 4:11 Posie rear-end, I put 4 barrel manifold and carburetor, a Tach, Corvair Bucket Seats. the best sound system in the 70s. Installed Headphones plugged in the Dash. Chromed Defroster Vents. ash tray and glove box, Chrome Steelies rims Front and rear 15 inch wide the in rear Stainless 66 ford Hub caps. Loved that truck.

Love your truck! It's been crazy seeing it progress from long tube headers to this!

Good to see it back on the ground! Probably my favorite youtube channel. Keep up the great work.

Glad to see that bad boy is on the ground take care buddy

I am building a 1966 F100 with a 302 over on my channel, also dealing with valve train issues. Had some comunications with another 302 guy that said he drilled and pinned his rocker arm studs to keep them in place. Just thought I would mention that. Keep the videos comming.

Been waiting for this! Can't wait to see the engine upgrades. Your truck should handle and drive sooo much better now!

Love the videos Craig! Keep up the great work! Super stoked to see it all buttoned up! ✊🏼

Finally great truck content love the work you done

Don't you have to change the master cylinder and residual valve as well..

I pulled the whole brake system out of my 68 last fall. All new stainless steel brake lines, four wheel disk now. Did my fronts sort of like you did. I just ordered spindles for a 73. And the went with all the upgrades. Cross drilled an vented rotors. Six piston calipers on the front, four piston on the rear. And the hp pads. I bought the kit for the rear.

Very nice, very clean, very impressive.........Now the rear end is crying for a disk brake conversion.

Great video good to see it on the ground looks great 👍

The disc brakes conversion looks awesome!

Omg one my favorite young dudes to watch. I love ur drive to repair ur old vehicles and drive them not trailer queens.

Love the fact some young guys are still ding the old classics very cool videos and I'm sure your very supported by us older guys keep up the good work

Sweet truck enjoy the vids keep up the great work

Man she’s looking sweet!! Definitely want a 68/71 myself! Be a nice addition to my 01 7.3!!

Not gonna lie, the i beams and rear diff would look pretty badass with some pin striping 🤙

Looks real awesome dam that truck has came a long way..been watching your videos since you first bought it.. amazing what's transformation it's gone to before and after..keep up the good work

Your video is worth the wait, keep it up brother 😌

Looks awesome great work Craig

Ive been thinking about a disk conversion on my 76 F100. I wasnt real sure how to do that to begin with. Keep the good content

Perfect stance with those wheels and tires for sure. Thinking about turning my 17 f150 5.0 into a lowered street truck. Currently leveled on 33s. Love the vids, i can only hope my channel grows like yours lol.

You have come a long ways Craig. I have to say that I pulled my hair out a few times but your on it now. You know more about camshafts than I do so single plane manifolds might just be the ticket for you. I felt like it compromised brake vacuum and so didn't care for that single plane but things do change an your way ahead of me there. good luck as its been frustrating for you for sure

I like the stance on this truck, tires fit nicely filling in the gap like we see on stock trucks.

It's a little late now, but you should have drilled and tapped a drain plug for your rear end! Did it on my 74 F100 and it makes for a much cleaner gear change. Also gives you something to jack it up on. Just put a piece of 2x4 on Jack pad. Just a thought. Check out Lugnuts for a rear disc swap kit. Going to get a kit for my 77 F250 w/Dana 60, but they have good kits for the 9" rearend too.😊

Can't wait to hear it fire up and go down the road

Awesome to see the truck on the ground again man, might have to try and make an RC replica of it one day and maybe he red galaxie maybe

Great work man!

Awesome stuff Brother!

Like up my boys posts how generous and cool of him to build old cars and teach and even give part numbers on every vid he lets u know where to get stuff. if I had a 2wd or saw these years ago pry save a lot of my time and money by copying his vids for some portions of my 78 , love watching ur vids even though we don’t have similar stuff I love to learn more !! Keep up the grind and one day u can restore other people’s cars 🤟🏽 that’d be a dream for me haha

The copper is a really kick ass touch. Separates from the black underbody and compliments the patina

Mannnnnn I just told William, Greaserthoughts, that I was getting the shakes from Craig/Fred/Greaserthoughts withdrawals!!!! So glad y’all posted today! Maybe it’ll give me some drive to work on my junk tomorrow! Bought a Weber/edelbrock carb at scrapyard yesterday n a buddy of mine started stripping a gold duster for his dart project!

Excellent video. Funny I ''m rebuilding the rearend of my 64 Galaxie right now.

Coming along great man.

Thanks Craig

Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏

floor jack rubber pad will help, trucks looking good bro

Looks good man

Awesome video craig. I have a 74 long bed. Before I shipped it to myself where in the Uk my mechanic in Arkansas overhauled the breaks for me. Colour coding the callipers to. One question I have. I have 15/10 and 15/8 craigar ss wheels on it. I think it sits ok. But I would like better handling. Can I just put a set of coil overs on it. Would that give me a better ride. And handling. ?? Thanks mate keep them videos coming love seeing your progress. Thanks again

Would love to see more of Franklins truck

Great job 👍🏻 Awesome content as Always 😊💪🏼💯🇺🇸

Did all this to my 68 F100. Put a Lincoln Continental 4V V8 in it too. Carbed with MSD box. Yes a front wheel drive engine bolted to a C4 trans.

Man the truck is looking good

Sean is straight ripping that vape when you were installing the 3rd member 🤣

Good Gawd!!!! That slick though!!!!

Love this truck

Im loving that color

Man I just ordered wilwood disc brake kit for my f100 I’m so ready

Great video@

is there a reason you left off the backing plates or shields on front

how's the drum at that much HP ? i dont find any conversion kit for my ram w100 and wanted to swap something strong also.. wondering if it was not that bad

Greetings Craig. I have a question. I noticed the u bolts holding the differential to the leaf springs have a bit of an excess in length, are you going to trim those off at some point? Love the content brother! Thank you..

So much content I love it

those rims are sick

easiest way and best way to replace the cap without ever damaging them is a half inch socket that goes over it and covers the edges then just tap it in.

Hi Craig you must have good neighbours to put up with all the work you do on trucks and cars

Nice 👍

Dude that’s awesome!!! Love your channel! It’s inspiring me to get off my butt and do something with my 78 f100. You still check your P.O. Box! Rad!! Sending you something tomorrow!

It would have been nice to have gone with disc brakes on the rear too.... Also you should look into a later Fox body style master cylinder. They make multiple bore sizes and they look great under the hood!! They work great as well.

I did the same swap on my 67. Did your 15x8 with 3” backspace wheels clear the calipers?

KooL Thanx 4 tha vids.

Is the king pin diameter different on the disk brake conversion

Since you didn't set the pinion angle with the truck sitting on all 4 tires with the full weight of the truck you might want to check that again to make sure the rear end is 3 degrees lower than the transmissions angle. Can't wait to see the new heads with screw in studs, that should finish everything up.

Where did you get the front end at and how much plz

thank god you ended up using new rotors/hubs. I was cringing when you said you were going to reuse the old ones haha

I’m about to do the disc swap on my ‘69, I’d love to see how you tackle the master cylinder and proportioning valve.

Why did you not re-install the dust shields?

Haven’t seen it for a bit so I must ask. What’s up with the cv chassis?

What tire size are u running

What did you do for the master cylinder?

All very cool, but I had to miss something- I saw the disk brakes go on but didn’t see any brake hoses or tie rods etc. Then it was back on the ground and the wrap up was talking about fixing the engine rocker problem?

What about the screw in rocker studs, did you buy some?

That’s an awesome setup. What wheels are those? Kick ass truck.

Did you change the brake master because drum brake masters hold pressure so your brakes will drag in the front

What size are your wheels n tires they look dope af

Are the I beams different on the 73

Brother, your truck is looking MEAN! Love the new cooper cobra look. Can you please tell me the size of your new tires? Keep up the amazing transformation. A Big hug from Puerto Rico.

I like your snow

Ok I have a 71 f100 and I’ve installed DJM ibeams on it. I’m wanting to swap it over to disc brakes. I have a 75-79 disc brake setup from a donor truck. Will my DJM ibeams work with the 75-79 spindles or will I need new DJM ibeams for the 75-79 spindles?

GREAT JOB CRAIGGY FROM YOUR PAL THE VERMONSTER

Back in the seventies we used to paint our rear ends fluorescent orange and other bright colors because we had our cars jacked up and you can see our rear end from any angle... hahaha

I love how in the montage you just had to do the galaxy dirty 😂🖕🏻

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Good stuff bro , like that color, it stands out . it was copper right ?. next video can you talk any plans to the inside like if your going to do a custom audio ? .

The one clip of the rear axle it look red as can be. At other angles it's copper, is it a color flip pearl in the paint? I'm about to completely tear my 79 apart, pull the cab off and begin the full body restoration while I get the block and heads machined and prepped for rebuild. Gotta also finish the basement! ugh, I'd rather be working on the truck!

I tried to press those sleeves out out with a socket and a vice, it wasn’t fun I ended up taking them to the machine shop too 🤣

Started doing some sheet metal work on my Supra, needed to walk away from that and calm down with this video 😅

Hey bro just subscribed awesome content im starting out from scratch any tips? btw awesome content will be following closely

To install a dust cap on brakes just get a big ass socket or piece of pipe that fits over it and sits on the rim and then hammer it in straight. Don't do what you are doing here.. You want it to go in flush and not distort. Also when tightening your castle nut on discs you should be spinning the disc while tightening it and then just tighten it until there's some drag on it. (Yes I actually took auto shop and paid attention, despite what my asshole instructor said.. not too mention I've been watching car shows on tv for 30 years now)

Looks nice, but you forgot to install the brake backing plates.

i converted my 69 ranger to pwr steering. it will not self center. when the truck is sitting still you can just get the steering wheel started and it will go until it bottoms out by itself. any suggestions

Brand of the disk brakes?? Which kit is??

You went to all the trouble painting the axle tube. You should have also painted the pumpkin.

What’s a good cheap way to put disk brakes on the back

Just a suggestion, pack the wheel bearings with grease. It’s looking good though keep it up.