1984-86 lincoln mark 7 rear brakes

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Ive been told this is a direct bolt disc brake swap for 8or 9 inch rear . True? anybody do it?

 

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I'm doing it right now. I got my parts form an 87 Mk7. You can use parts from:

1. 1984 thru 1986 Mustang SVO.

2. 1984 thru 1987 Lincoln Continental.

3. 1984 thru 1990 Lincoln Mk VII.

You need a dist. block from a non-ABS car (I stole mine from a continental).

I'm using a Conti/Mk7 MC for a Hydroboost car, since it's cast aluminum, and looks stock, but it's a high-capacity 4x disc cast aluminum clone of the favored SVO MC. Use the MC rod from your car.

You need the dust shields, the caliper bracket & calipers and the ends of the ebrake cables, rotors, 2 short flex lines that are on brackets, and big flex line form the rear to the car. I'm getting ready to do this swap meself. It takes a special set of adapters from Ultrastang

I'm going manual at first, but I might go power if I don't like it, and if I can fit the MC & a 90 mustang GT booster in it like you can a 67+.

If you have a 65-66, you could try this booster/MC combo to see if it fits, so I don't have to find out it doesn't the hard way.

Check out ultrastang.com more for info.
HTH
--Kyle

 

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aak. It helps to read and comprehend the question before writing a reply

 

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Hack said:

aak. It helps to read and comprehend the question before writing a reply

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Well...sorry, I kinda missed that part didn't I? It will fit 8" and 9" rears, and they have a bracket for each. I'm using it on my stock 8", then on a built 31 spline 9" when cash allows.
--Kyle

 

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5.0ina66 said:

Well...sorry, I kinda missed that part didn't I? It will fit 8" and 9" rears, and they have a bracket for each. I'm using it on my stock 8", then on a built 31 spline 9" when cash allows.
--Kyle

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My comment was directed at myself. I'm working on flip discs on an 8.8 to go into my '70 Mustang. There are some issues, which I described but I was hardly answering the original question. So I deleted my post, since I didn't have an answer to the original question.

 

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Wow....screwy concidence!

 

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When getting the rear disk setups, does it matter if the car had ABS? I am looking at a Mark VII tomorrow that has rear disks (parting out) and was told the car had ABS. HELP!

 

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The best source for info on this is the originator: www.ultrastang.com . The short answer to the original question is it is not a bolt-on swap as is. It will require custom caliper mounting brackets such as Ultrastang sells. Also, the rotors are not hub centric and therefor require centering rings (as included with Ultrastang's bracket kit). I'm doing this swap as well, using the Ultrastang kit. Seems are very reasonable way to get decent sized rear discs for cheap.

Hope this helps...

 

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i have a goofy plan of my own for rear discs. what i plan on using are rotors, parking brake assembly and backing plates from a late model crown vic and making my own brackets to use the stock 4 piston front calipers from a 67 stang. or even better use the aluminum versions from SSBC.

for the front i'm going to use 69 drum spindles and hubs with larger 12" rotors and again 4 piston calipers, however i'm going to try and use wider front discs like the old t-birds and lincolns used and also the 4 piston calipers for those cars, however that may turn into a pretty expensive proposition since the rotors are about 100 bucks a piece and the calipers are even more than that, so i may go with a thinner caliper from the same late model crown vic and the same 4 piston calipers as the 67 stang in the ssbc aluminum version for sure on the front. i should also be able to fit these in my 15" wheels as well, the key is the calipers, you must use the kelsey-hayes style calipers because the sit so close to the O.D. of the rotor. the later model PBR's are too big to work with a 12" rotor and 15" wheel.

 

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69 Rustang said:

When getting the rear disk setups, does it matter if the car had ABS? I am looking at a Mark VII tomorrow that has rear disks (parting out) and was told the car had ABS. HELP!

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Nope! The '87 I got my parts from had ABS. The only thing you can't use from an ABS car is the dist. block. I got my dist. block off of a '85 Continental w/o ABS.
HTH
--kyle

 

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The ABS doesn't matter. You can just unbolt the sensor from the backing plate and knock the exciter ring off the axle.