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M-2300-K Installation
Rear Disk Installation
By Chris Ihara

3 Hours

1 Have your catch pan ready and drain the rear. Smells good doesn't it?
2 Remove the rear differential cover.
3 Remove the carrier pin.
4 Pull the C clips out of the rear axles, a strong magnet or needle nose vice grips will help.
5 Remove the rear axles.
Now is a good time to replace your rear axle bearings.
6 Disconnect the hard line from the rear drums.
7 Disconnect the parking brake lines from the yoke above the drive shaft.
(The person who removed the Brake booster can now start removing the parking brake handle, see section below)
8 Unbolt the rear drums and remove as one piece.
9 The parking brake lines are held in by expanding clips. You can remove the parking brake lines by either cutting the expanding clips, using a tie wrap to compress them and then pull them through, or some have used a 12mm socket to compress them and push them through the mounting holes.
10 Remove all the hard lines from the rear axle.
11 Remove the soft line between the hard line and the pumpkin.
12 Replace all hardware with the pieces included in the kit and torque to spec.
13 Install the mounting plates to the rear axles and torque to spec.
For a little extra neatness you might want to paint these brackets black with a high temperature paint just to keep them from rusting. Unfortunately I should have done this but forgot.

14 Install the new axles.
15 Reinstall C Clips.
16 Reinstall the carrier pin.
17 Scrape off all the old silicone from the differential housing and the differential cover.
18 Spread a generous bead of silicone around the lip of the differential cover.
19 Replace differential cover and torque to spec using a "Star" pattern for your tightening order.

For each side:
  1. Install new rotor.
  2. Attach moan brace to the rear axle and mounting braket and torque to spec.
  3. Install new caliper and torque to spec.
  4. Attach brake lines to the calipers torque to spec.
  5. Attach the new emergency brake lines, make sure they don't rub the tires.
    If you have a 93 model Mustang you will use different emergency brake cables, be sure to use the correct ones. The lines for the 93's are much longer than the other lines. See the instructions for part numbers.

  6. Run the lines to the parking brake handle area.

PARKING BRAKE HANDLE REMOVAL, MODIFICATION, AND INSTALLATION
  1. Remove the arm rest
  2. Unscrew the 4 screws holding the center console
  3. Tilt it sideways and disconnect the power mirror adjuster and the cigarette lighter.
  4. Remove the center console
  5. Unbolt the parking brake.
  6. Remove the old parking brake yoke cable from the assembly
  7. Modify the parking brake

PARKING BRAKE MODIFICATION
There is a self adjusting mechanism which needs to be defeated on the parking brake. Apparently the spring and the adjusting feature will cause the rear brakes to be continually engaged. This is bad.

The self adjusting mechanism is disengaged when the brakes are fully disengaged and the handle is pushed all the way down. When you push all the way down the ratchet is disengaged from the teeth by a tab at the top of the assembly. By welding the ratchet to the teeth the handle will not go down all the way. Thus you may also want to cut off the self adjusting tab on the ratchet.

  1. Cut the tab of the spring off
  2. Cut the tab of the self-adjusting ratchet off
  3. Weld the ratchet to the teeth with the second to last tooth engaged

PARKING BRAKE INSTALLATION
  1. Drill the existing hole in the yoke to 11/16"
  2. Install the new parking brake yoke adapter in the handle
  3. Re-install the parking brake
  4. Attach the modified yoke to the parking brake line and install the two included nuts. You will need both so that you can tighten them against each other to prevent your parking brake from becoming mis-adjusted.
  5. Attach the parking brake lines from the rear to the yoke and tighten to remove any slack. Lock the nuts together
  6. Re-connect the mirror and cigarette lighter harnesses
  7. Replace the center console and arm rest.
ALMOST FINISHED!!

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