Are these Bendix disk brakes on this K member? Is it worth using these parts to convert from drums?

[avmechanic]

A buddy of mine just purchased a complete K member and front suspension from a 68' Charger for parts for us to use to rebuild the front end of his 68' Charger. This car is being done by a local custom shop that is doing a Helcat swap and suspension upgrade. It was a 440 R/T car and they swapped out the front suspension for a fancy tubular setup with rack and pinion. Anyway my friend bought the takeoff parts. He has a 318 car with drum brakes. We are doing a big block swap and the front end needs a rebuild as well. The plan was to blast an rebuild the suspension and then have the new big block sitting in the K member to so the engine swap along with the suspension at the same time. He had planned to leave the car drum brakes for now but this front end turned out to have disk brakes. It looks like the callipers are missing though. We have not measured the rotors yet but they look to be serviceable. I see callipers available at Rockauto. Will it be impossible to to find the little pieces like the brake lines? What manual master cylinder would we use? Looking at the pictures of these pieces they do look to be the factory 68' Bendix disk brakes. From these pictures do these pieces indeed look like Bendix stuff. What advice do you have to share? Thanks.
Greg

 

[avmechanic]

Here is another picture.

 

[440 4 speed]

Do you have the booster? Master cylinder is available as a reman. It is a dual cylinder.
Craig at Mobileparts might have correct pads, not sure about callipers.
Dr.Diff might be able to supply some needed parts. Auto-Line does rebuilds etc.

 

[59pwrwgn]

Your pictures aren't great. Bendix rotor should be two piece and the left side should have left hand treaded studs. Those appear one piece. Year one sells one piece with right hand studs. Given the expense of Bendix stuff and the fact that everything is painted blue , someone may have converted to 70s stuff , which would be easier and cheaper. A picture of the caliber bracket and measuring the rotor diameter would be helpful.

 

[avmechanic]

Do you have the booster? Master cylinder is available as a reman. It is a dual cylinder.
Craig at Mobileparts might have correct pads, not sure about callipers.
Dr.Diff might be able to supply some needed parts. Auto-Line does rebuilds etc.

I don't believe he has the booster and master cylinder. The parts are not accessible to me yet so I can't look through them. We are in the Vancouver area and the parts are on Vancouver island. I had another friend of mine pick them up for us there but will not get them over here for a few weeks. We are just trying to decipher what is there from the pictures. He is not worried about keeping things original stock on his car. We are planning for reinforcing the lower control arms and rebuilding them. Tubular upper control arms and new aftermarket struts. We can try to come up with a different disk brake setup if need be. We just thought it would be nice to use this stuff if we can. Are there any kits that can fit those spindles?

 

[avmechanic]

Your pictures aren't great. Bendix rotor should be two piece and the left side should have left hand treaded studs. Those appear one piece. Year one sells one piece with right hand studs. Given the expense of Bendix stuff and the fact that everything is painted blue , someone may have converted to 70s stuff , which would be easier and cheaper. A picture of the caliber bracket and measuring the rotor diameter would be helpful.

Here are some close ups of the rotors and spindles. From what I can see, they look to be the Bendix stuff based on other pictures I found online. The guy selling the stuff said he should theoretically have the callipers and master cylinder/booster combo but has no idea where those parts are at this point.
Greg

 

[hemi71x]

No, those aren't Bendix disc brake rotors.
Bendix rotors are two piece, hub and rotor.
You have a conversion.
Here's what a Bendix system looks like, from someones old ad, here on this forum.

FOR SALE - Bendix disc brake assm. 66 -69 B