98~05 Blazer brake upgrade! DONE!

[Chris Chow]

Upgraded to hydroboost. When I upgraded the brakes. An internal leak was readily apparent. Now the brakes are rock hard comparatively speaking.

Probably going with a manual brake proportioning valve or the proportioning valve for rear disk brake setup next.


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[1KWIKSIX]

I'd suggest you go with Wilwoods adjustable proportioning valve. Just remove your original proportioning valve & install the Wilwood. A little bit of plumbing (re brake lines) and you're in business. It's bolt on & not only looks trick, but works great!
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[Chris Chow]

I'd suggest you go with Wilwoods adjustable proportioning valve. Just remove your original proportioning valve & install the Wilwood. A little bit of plumbing (re brake lines) and you're in business. It's bolt on & not only looks trick, but works great!
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Lol nice.
Did you add more bias to the rear? Mine locks up the front brakes pretty easily.
My rears drums get line pressure but apparently not enough.


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[1KWIKSIX]

Lol nice.
Did you add more bias to the rear? Mine locks up the front brakes pretty easily.
My rears drums get line pressure but apparently not enough.


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I've got the proportioning valve set for minimum rear brake bias, as I was worried about prematurely locking rears since I have the larger 7/8" bore (manual ) S-10 rear brake cylinders with both set of larger leading shoe brake pads & aluminum brake drums. So far have not locked up rears. Suspect I could creep up on the rear brake bias slightly , but so far works great and seems to be perfectly matched to my HydroBoost brakes with 2WD Blazer rotors and dual piston callipers..

 

[81msw79]

no 2wd xtreme

Can actually use any 2wd blazer from 98-05. not just xtremes. xtreme is just a sports appearance package. base blazers even still had disk brakes in rear.

 

[TURNA]

Can actually use any 2wd blazer from 98-05. not just xtremes. xtreme is just a sports appearance package. base blazers even still had disk brakes in rear.

This is a front brake thread

 

[Doug Chahoy]

2 wheel drive Blazers in Pgh are more rare than Rolls Royce’s in the winter we could change the name to Slip and Slide. About 95 0/0 of all S series trucks sold here were 4X4s I spent 2 hours yesterday after work at the local U Pull and Pay, I must have looked at 40-50 S vehicles. Even the 3 , 2 wheel drive ones had the one piece rotor hub assembly. The b*tch is, all I need is the bolts to put it all together. I’ve contacted the forum member I bought the so called Complete Kit from 3 times in the last week, only to be ignored. Does anyone have a blow up diagram of all the parts of this assembly? I’ve spent alot of my spare time lately searching the net with no luck.

 

[fleming442]

Dorman makes the bolts, I think. Check rockauto...

 

[Streetbu]

2 wheel drive Blazers in Pgh are more rare than Rolls Royce’s in the winter we could change the name to Slip and Slide. About 95 0/0 of all S series trucks sold here were 4X4s I spent 2 hours yesterday after work at the local U Pull and Pay, I must have looked at 40-50 S vehicles. Even the 3 , 2 wheel drive ones had the one piece rotor hub assembly. The b*tch is, all I need is the bolts to put it all together. I’ve contacted the forum member I bought the so called Complete Kit from 3 times in the last week, only to be ignored. Does anyone have a blow up diagram of all the parts of this assembly? I’ve spent alot of my spare time lately searching the net with no luck.

I thought the same thing yet was still able to find a local yard that them in stock.. use www.car-part.com

 

[81msw79]

This is a front brake thread

i know. if you read my what i wrote i said all 98-05 blazers 2wd blazers have the same brakes. all. base or xtreme. so front brakes from all 2wd 98-05 will work and i added the note that they all have rear disk too. there is zero difference between an xtreme and and base blazers besides the appearance package/sport spring package. you stated needed to be 2wd xtreme.