06 Colorado Xtreme Crew Cab 3LT

[1991BlazerSport]

Originally Posted by bwhitfield24

To my knowledge, no S-10s came with disks.... just the blazers.

I wasn't 100% sure on that...I had seen an X-treme in a junkyard that had discs and I didn't look at the rest of the truck to see if it had been a Blazer, just the rear end. lol

I looked it up in my Hollander Interchange and it says nothing about drums, just discs from 1998-03. Weird.

I didn't look, but do the Blazer rear discs have the e-brake in the rotor hat or in the caliper?

Interesting story about the e-brake in the rotor hat...The original design was born in 1963 or 1964 for the 1965 Corvette and the chief designer for Delco-Moraine HATED disc brakes. So he came up with this idea thinking GM would hate it but instead they ran with it. Then later they came up with the e-brake in the caliper, but went back to the mini drum design because people that didn't use the e-brake much were developing seized calipers.

The same person that designed the 1965 Corvette brakes also invented the self-adjusting drum brakes in 1962.

And there's your history lesson for today. lol

[bwhitfield24]

My optioned out 03 Xtreme pickup had drum rears....


Thanks for the lesson, not sure when i'll use it, but thanks anyway!!

[GregW]

My 99 S10 Xtreme has drums.
My 02 S10 crew cab 4x4 has discs

I think its blazers and 4x4s

[bwhitfield24]

*had....

[GregW]

Originally Posted by bwhitfield24

*had....

No, they should still HAVE them now. lol

[bwhitfield24]

if they're still alive....

[GregW]

Originally Posted by 1991BlazerSport

Interesting story about the e-brake in the rotor hat...The original design was born in 1963 or 1964 for the 1965 Corvette and the chief designer for Delco-Moraine HATED disc brakes. So he came up with this idea thinking GM would hate it but instead they ran with it. Then later they came up with the e-brake in the caliper, but went back to the mini drum design because people that didn't use the e-brake much were developing seized calipers.

The same person that designed the 1965 Corvette brakes also invented the self-adjusting drum brakes in 1962.

And there's your history lesson for today. lol

Talk about useless information... Thats a great conversation piece with the guys! lol

[93_Blaze]

Back from the dead lol......

I noticed you said you wanted to tint your tails? Well check this out, this is my brother's Coly (with a v8 ). He found this one paint from a hobby shop in Hawaii where he is based for 5 bucks called Tamya (sp?) 'smoke'. A quick buff after paint and looks great!

Here is a link to his cardomain page with all his pics:

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3210313

[GregW]

Wow, that does look good

[GregW]

And the Colorado is sold. Last Saturday it went it it's new home.