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looking for reccomendations on front end disk brake kit with no booster(5 lug). There are so many kits to choose from ,, looking for a painless application..

I don't know that any of them are comletely painless.

The first thing to know is that there are really only two or three different kits, offered by many different venders.

Read the descriptions carefully and you'll begin to see the differences and similarities.

The calipers and rotors used are one of the things that distinguish different kits. Your past experience with the vender might be more important than the differences between the kits.

Reading as much as possible about the conversion beforehand is probably as important as the kit. Understanding the kind of obstacles you're likely to encounter and seeing where others had challenges with the kits will forearm you to overcome the pains they have encountered in this swap.

If you search here and read what others have said you may also decide that some things are important to you that were not to others, and that one feature of a given kit may be the reason you'd choose it over the others.

I'd suggest you plan to convert to a dual master and completely replumb your brakes at the same time. That isn't a painless operation, but it does eliminate some of the problems others have had with disk conversions.

Thanks,
gonna do dualmaster for sure forgot to add that..

OLD SUB,
I saw your from wash, bremerton area,, are you submariner???

No I own an old Suburban. I sure do know a lot of submariners, including some of my local relatives. You are not the first to ask about submarines.

Dual master and new lines are important.

My Suburban has the dual master bracket from CPP and the disk kit from Chevy Duty. I choose the disk kit because it used calipers and rotors from a mid-size mid-70's GM product and I already had the rear axle with brakes from a '73 Chevelle wagon under my truck.

Chevy Duty has since changed names and I do NOT recommend them as a vender. Others like them, but I'll never buy from them again based on my own experience with their customer service.

I bought almost all the brake parts new even though I still had the Chevelle. I did use the multi-valve from the Chevelle . Now when I need brake parts I know I just ask for '73 Chevelle stuff.

I think that approach eased some of the hassles, though I won't claim the project was painless. I did this about seven years ago in the fall and did not have a shop at the time. Much of the work I did laying in damp grass and shivering.