I bought a super nice wrecked 04 silverado regular cab short bed to drive.

[LEEVON]

Actually these trucks disc brakes had lots of issues, namely the parking brake always failed, pretty much without exception and it's an expensive fix. Drum brakes work great.

[hugger6933]

That's right if that is going backwards the General went backwards himself in best I can tell midyear 05 from the wreaks I've had.To the best of my recollection the early 05 I had I thought had disc brakes and the mid year was a drum and everything afterwards was a drum brake. On the 1/2 ton. Jim

[468BIGBLOCK]

Originally Posted by hugger6933

That's right if that is going backwards the General went backwards himself in best I can tell midyear 05 from the wreaks I've had.To the best of my recollection the early 05 I had I thought had disc brakes and the mid year was a drum and everything afterwards was a drum brake. On the 1/2 ton. Jim

gm went back to drum brakes in 2005-2013 because of thousands of lawsuits and even deaths on the rear disc brakes. so on this truck i am doing a rear drum brake upgrade. gm is going back to disc on there all new 2014 model. lets see how they do in the real world.

[no moa]

Originally Posted by 468BIGBLOCK

gm went back to drum brakes in 2005-2013 because of thousands of lawsuits and even deaths on the rear disc brakes. so on this truck i am doing a rear drum brake upgrade. gm is going back to disc on there all new 2014 model. lets see how they do in the real world.

On the 1/2 ton models they had issues?

[468BIGBLOCK]

Originally Posted by LEEVON

Actually these trucks disc brakes had lots of issues, namely the parking brake always failed, pretty much without exception and it's an expensive fix. Drum brakes work great.

you sir are correct. gm had tons of problems out of there rear disc brakes. i will stick to drums for my build. gm went back to drums in 2005-2013. they had tons of lawsuits and even deaths because of rear disc brake failures.