This a fair price

[OLE69F100]

I called a millon wrecking yards and finally found one with some older pickups. I was looking for the front end off a disc brake truck and found one and they want $200.00 for the whole deal calipers,rotors, spindles,I-beams, springs, and proportioning valve. What do you guys think, good deal? Is there anything else I need to get off the truck? My 69' that its going on has power drums already.

[mnagatani]

I think its a great deal. I paid 300.00 out here in san diego for the same thing. One thing you might want to grab is the tie rods. You might want to replace them anyways, but it may be nice to get them as part of the deal. I'm in the process of puting mine all back together. It seems that the later model spindles where the tie rods connect are thicker than than the stock ones. The later model tie rods accomidate for the wider mounting point.

[440Dave]

I'm pretty new to Ford trucks, but I did a disc brake conversion on my 71 cuda a few years ago. I paid 150 bucks and spent an entire afternoon pulling all the parts off a donor car. the calipers were frozen, and turned out to be only 20 bucks ea. brand new. The rotors were 32 bucks ea brand new, brake hoses 11 bucks ea, etc. After all that work, I only ended up using 2 pieces off the donor car, and they were only 40 bucks ea new from mopar. I wish I had priced the new stuff before crawling into the blackberries and working so hard for used stuff. And then paying the same as if I had just gone to the parts store and bought nice clean new stuff.

[spartman]

Up here I can get that whole thing for 50 bucks.

I just have to go to the middle of nowhere and pull it myself

[rjewkes]

i paid 150 for a 77 f150 x cab with disc fronts. if you can find a whole truck for 300.00 even you could sell anything you don't need.

and recoupe it all.

[two-bit]

I paid $80 for all of that plus the Master cylinder, for an F-350 dually disc front end.

Of course i pulled it all during spring thaw, among the ice, and snow.

Everywhere is different price wise for stuff.
Front fenders that are $50-$75 elsewhere... are over $125, up here in the rust belt. Cabs with doors in rust free condition go for $600-$800. Other places they are around $200 or less.

Just depends on where you are.
Price out the stuff from a parts store, see if the price difference is worth it to you.

Later
Two-bit

[Banjo]

really, you're better off to buy a whole dead truck, rob what you want, sell some and haul to crusher yourself and get about $300 in crush value, depending on what scrap going for. But, I was willing to pay extra to avoid yet another dead carcass in my yard, as they passed a new county ordnance and I already have couple non-runners in yard. Plus, once you get into pulling suspension you have to plan ahead how you gonna get rid of the carcass, how to back up to it and skid it on, how bad it might scratch a trailor, etc. Most places that'll come buy it to crush won't get you much at all and I had one car that was missing front and rear suspension I'd robbed and I couldn't give it away for crush weight, but this was before value on scrap rose. That's the reason not alot old around here anymore, they were getting 3-400 to crush a whole vehicle so most yards unloaded everything from 90s back (around here).

[dropper]

I paid 120.00 for everything on the front end. But I had to pull it.

[71 LONG BED]

$75 here in Jersey. Some day I'll get around to putting it all on.

[OLE69F100]

Thanks for all the replys. The $200 was for them to cut the frame and load up the whole deal. I am going to look at a parts truck but it is all drum, seems they are all that way in the 67'-72' around here, but if the cab and fenders are good I might just have to buy it for those parts. I will call around and see if I can get just the spindles from some places and go from there. Thanks again for all the comments.

[Thunderfoot]

Thanks for all the replys. The $200 was for them to cut the frame and load up the whole deal. I am going to look at a parts truck but it is all drum, seems they are all that way in the 67'-72' around here, but if the cab and fenders are good I might just have to buy it for those parts. I will call around and see if I can get just the spindles from some places and go from there. Thanks again for all the comments.

Just to make sure... You were looking for a disc brake set up off of the trucks all the way up to 1979 correct

[OLE69F100]

Yes I told the guy anything from 68'-79' as long as I could get the I-beams with the newer 73'-79' spindles.

[Banjo]

I just peiced mine together and after doing it, have to admit, if I had been offered a whole frame off disc truck (73-79) for $200, I would have done and drove straight to car wash with gallon of purple power and brushes/screwdrivers/putty knife and cleaned it best I could before i took home. that's safer than risking bite from snake or black widow or getting crushed screwing with it. Plus, you need to read "tech and tutorials" for disc conversion and ibeam differences, you can't just mix and match parts.