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Offline John Galt

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Disc Brakes on Rear
« on: September 01, 2017, 02:44:26 PM »
Has anyone converted the rear brakes to disc? I have an 86 wagon. Is there a plug and play swap from a Cherokee?
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Re: Disc Brakes on Rear
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2017, 06:54:46 PM »
There are several write ups on how to convert a Cherokee rear axle to disc brakes online, but not sure how easy it is to put a Cherokee axle on an Eagle, that's beyond my level of expertise.  This one also references a Liberty rear axle with disc brakes:

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f11/zj-rear-disc-conversion-8-25-write-up-whole-truth-607435/
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Re: Disc Brakes on Rear
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2017, 08:02:44 PM »
this is something that I plan to do eventually to my Eagle. I already have the Cherokee axel in mine and other than moving the shock mounts it was pretty much a direct bolt in.
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