QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Aug 15 2006, 05:05 PM)
Here's a question... If you plan on taking your truck off-roading is it better to go with discs or drums?
I've been considering upgrading the brakes in my pickup, I'm fairly certain they're just crappy drum brakes all around but I was wondering if discs would have problems when going through dust and mud.
The biggest advantage of discs brakes is the cooling, theyr exposed to the outside air therefore can be colled far easier. Going so far as to get drilled and grooved discs will increase braking performance massivly, all of this cant be done with drums. The only real disadvantage to drums is fade, the components are not exposed to outside air therefore tend to heat up and eventually fade, meaning a very scary moment for the driver.
if your going to use it off road then your drums should be fine, unless its fast off road or your going to be doing very heavy braking. If you just plan on bouncing around some feilds or something your drums will be fine.
Although if your thinking about upgrading your brakes perhaps you could go half way and get discs on the front wheels, most of a vehicles braking is handled by the front wheels anyway so that way you wouldnt suffer from so much fade under heavy braking.
Things like dirt and dust wont really affect the performance of disc brakes, think about all the new jeeps/ land rovers etc they have discs all round.
And drilled and grooved discs with 6 pot calipers looks so cool