2nd Gen Dodge RAM 1500 Rear Disc Brake Axle Swap Conversion

[@MM_in_Havasu]

Excellent tutorial on a rear axle swap, thanks man! Great video!

[@RheudeK23]

Amazing and clean install per usual! Love to see all the progress on the Ram! This is truly going to be a one of a kind unit and a certified ripper!

[@kennethmoyer1980]

Already a subscriber to both channels. I appreciate all the great content and informational videos you put out for us. Keep up the great work!! Love the episodes with building of cars/trucks

[@boostedmotorsports2]

Thanks man I appreciate it! 👍💪

[@2morgan_]

Not sure if you have already done this or plan to. I’d look into changing the front single piston calipers over to 2000-2001 dual piston style. I believe you could run 3 gen brakes / brembos but not entirely sure. You would need to change the spindle and control arms but it gets rid of that giant wheel bearing brake disc setup and moves to a unit bearing hub like the newer trucks. Hope this helps!

[@winstonemerson2439]

Masterful work as usual.Big Saturday night for me,fresh Boosted Motorsports content!

[@mikemccallon6957]

You need to redrill the perch and move rear back on locator pins about a inch to center the rear end. All my 2nd gens had to do that to .

[@nleippe]

If you just hold and lock the brake pedal depressed in about an inch or two it won't drip out on you.

[@sunshinesallday]

Subscribed to both channels. Great content John!

[@tgtshirts1]

WoW that was cool. Great work. Thumbs UP !

[@tobywalker8865]

Wonder if the backing plate bolt patterns are the same?

[@garymcnemar6620]

Excellent video! Thank you!!!

[@Davusbanuelos]

Hi john!! Great videos!! Planning to do a diff swap like this on my 2nd gen, any idea if i need to swap the master cilinder also?

[@tobywalker8865]

So the axles were the same length over all? Going to all that work I would of installed a 4 link.

[@tobywalker8865]

Found a rear end out of a 06 quad cab srt 10. Do you think it would be to much rear brake?

[@evodennis75]

I'm digging on the douche shocks

[@sannyojeda3222]

anyone know anything about the brake proportioning valve because rear drums required different pressure than the disc brakes we want to convert to?

[@schmbrt96]

Did you attempt to make the parking brake function?

[@pfabio2948]

Im looking to do a swap like this on a budget drift truck. Did you use a specific rear end from a 3rd gen ram? Like 2wd or 4x4? Or are they pretty much the same?

[@gunsandhorsepower]

Do they make bigger breack for those

[@zayoutlaw]

Are the SST wheels going to work with the larger wheel studs/nuts???

[@boostedmotorsports2]

Yessir 👍

[@carloscastrojr.3716]

Did the rims fit right on the 3rd gen rear axel? Bolts wise

[@claymillican25]

💪💪

[@BenyFiciary]

Why not just unbolt and swap just the backing plates?

[@johnsmith-qz4bv]

nice work

[@jessiecochran5172]

Don't clamp the brake hose. It will ruin it. Push the brake pedal down one inch and it blocks the chamber and fluid will not leak

[@davidriggins1591]

So it's same width?

[@melvinwooten3256]

If your truck is a ss/t why doesn't it have factory rear disc brakes? I've read all ss/t's came factory with rear disc brakes.

[@ImPris0n3d]

Wherever you’re sourcing that information from is wrong.

[@jrusted5.031]

Bro this truck would look so dope with an HD front end coverion! 👍

[@sspeedy2859]

Couldn't you just weld the axle tube flanges and use all the disk brake hardware backing plates caliper mounts disks metering block etc like you would do with a disk brake conversion kit, rather than a later model diff than having to do all this time wasting fabrication on the perches and figuring out drive line angles and everything else involved using a entirely different rear end?

[@Blackbeautymagnum]

I have a 94 ram 5.2 What years will fit ...Easy swap .

[@keithhaynes5348]

I'd still swap the same demonstrated axle. Your choices are; 3rd gen with disc, or any 94-99, but your stuck with drums.