Hi everyone, I'm looking forward to change my mav's rear drums for discs, and after reading a bit here it seemed to me a little complicated (not impossible) with the crown victoria and explorer. So I talked with a friend and he suggested that I should take the complete rear end from an sn95 with discs and cables and bolt it on the car. I didn't find anything about mustang sn95 swaps so my questions are: Is this possible? Has anybody done it? What's the difficulty level? Any heads up advice on doing it? Thanks in advance!
The sn95 is probably going to require more grinding and what not before you can mount the correct spring perches...the explorer rear is a pretty simple sway. Widths of both, plus a bunch more are on this site: http://www.toonutsracing.com/smf/index.php?topic=2121.0
why not just do the ...Crown Vic. Disc. brake swap...on your 8"... http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=86236&highlight=rear+disc
Thx!so you think the explorer one is easier? Reading here On the forum, i noticed of people saying that rear end is uneven or offset which leads me to believe there are issues with that.
The Mustang rear is also offset. The amount is less than the Explorer offset, but the Explorer axle is a heavier duty housing with a 31 spline carrier already. Not to mention the dimensions are close enough flange to flange that you might be able to use your existing wheel setup or at least a consistent offset/backspacing.
to put an exploerer or an sn95 mustang or any mustang rear end newer than 78 will require fabrication skills. that means cutting grinding and welding. if you dont have these skills this is not the project to develop them on. it will be cheaper to do the crown vic disk swap and have the 8" regeared and an lsd installed. the 8.8 is a stronger rear end but the 8" is a very stong rear end. sense your not drag racing i really doubt you will ever brake the 8"
Well sadly I must admit that, while I've done all that (cutting, grinding, welding), I'm FAR from top notch. but I have a buddy that excels at it and I would be using his supervision and expertise. The problem that I see with the crown vic brake swap is that it uses aditional hardware that I can't seem to get around here and can't fabricate since I don't have the specs, and from what I've read it's a MUST to achieve the expected results. The regeared sounds interesting though, I think I have a dana, let me take a pic of it and post it so all of you can tell me what would be the course to take. Thx!
I put an Explorer rear under my 69.5 Maverick. With the correct offset wheels, I am running 18x10s with no rubbing. You do have to modify the transmission tunnel in order for the driveshaft to have clearance. You also have to get new spring perches and put them on (make sure you have an angle meter so you can set your pinion angle properly). I have not even tackled the e-brake issue yet, so I don't know what to tell you there...with any of the 8.8 rears, I would recommend you weld the axle tubes to the housing in a few spots.
thats right yours has a dana 44. ive never worked on a mexican d44 in a maverick. i have worked on lots of d44s in other vehicles. i would think the disk brakes off of a jeep should be able to bolt on to the dana 44. also the d44 has about the same size ring gear as the 8.8.
So, not every '73 maverick has a dana? I always thought that was pretty much standard on all mavericks with a few exceptions. I've just learned something! :Handshake So now that I know that my maverick has a different rear end, could anybody please tell me what advantages and disadvantages do I have compared to "regular" mavericks and what are my challenges to change the brakes? Thx everybody for the quick responses, about 8 years here asking dumb questions and always getting loads of patience and input from you guys!
