Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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Some of you may know that i have been completely rebuilding the 4 piston Kelsey Hayes disc brake set up's that were optional equipment on the 1967-72 A body line of cars. When i get done with them, i sell them on e Bay. The current set that i have listed is the 10th pair that i have listed in the past 2, 2 1/2 years. Anyway, someone keeps insistantly e mailing me that you could get disc brakes on the A body cars in 1965 and 1966 also as dealer installed optional equipment. Is this guy bull shooting me, pulling my leg, or in general a guy that think's he's a know it all. I never heard this before. Anyone know if this is true or false? Must have a lot of A body gurus out here on Moparts. Any factual references to back up his statement, if it's true? Thank's in advance. Jim V.
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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Same here, saw them on an unmolested '66 A and was always my understanding that they were available in '65 though dont know if that was out the door or dealer installed. Since you are marketing them I see no reason they couldn't be retrofitted to 63-64 A bodies also. Wouldn't be OE but it might increase your market.
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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Gentlemen, thank you for sending me to disc brake school on the A body cars. Lots of good professors here. Next time i advertise them, i will be changing my heading to read 1965 - 1972.
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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They are just 64-1/5 Mustang brakes anywho...
Pretty much...... (except the inlet is in a different location). They even use the same wheel bearings.
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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Since my current listing didn't have an opening bid yet, i was able to change the heading to read 1965-72, and ad a better description to all the cars, and years they are used on. Thank's again Jim Lusk, and all my "teachers" here on "Moparts" Jim V.
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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01/19/10 05:14 PM
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Do the "teachers" get a discount
I don't need one, I've already got a couple of sets.........
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Re: Question about 67-72 A-Body Kelsey Hayes Disc Brakes.
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01/19/10 05:50 PM
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Disc brakes became optionally available in A-bodies late in the 1965 model year. Cost to buyer was about $90.
They were a factory production item, not dealer installed (not to say that some dealers couldn't have converted some factory drum-brake cars).
The 65-66 setup used a single master cylinder with a pressure limiting valve to the rear brakes.
At least one magazine - Speed & Custom Magazine in its October 1965 issue, on sale beginning July 28, 1965 - did a road test of a 1965 Barracuda with factory optional disc brakes.
The June 1966 issue of Car & Driver magazine has a road test of a 1966 Barracuda with disc brakes.
In any event, they are a bolt-in item for all A bodies back to 1962.
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