What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

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What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby LSnotchback » Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:36 pm

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As in title, I am looking for an 2 wd S-10 rear axle for my project. Can you tell me what model and year to look for with aluminium (2 piston? ) disc brake calibers?
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby RobR » Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:56 pm

I want to say 98+ Blazer's had the 2 piston calipers. I had a 98 and it had them.
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Postby hammerdown7 » Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:42 pm

RobR wrote:I want to say 98+ Blazer's had the 2 piston calipers. I had a 98 and it had them.


I thought those were on the front rotors, not the rear.
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby Bullet » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:49 pm

That is correct. 98 and up 4wd had two piston calipers on the front, single piston aluminum calipers on the rear. That is, 2wd and 4wd had the same rear calipers but only the 4wd got two pistons on the front.
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby Bullet » Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:58 pm

LSnotchback wrote:Hello guys!

As in title, I am looking for an 2 wd S-10 rear axle for my project. Can you tell me what model and year to look for with aluminium (2 piston? ) disc brake calibers?


Just want to make sure you are aware, the s10 disc brakes will not clear the body or the trailing arms without moving the calipers around quite a bit or fairly major surgery. There's several threads where this has been attempted.

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=28645
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby RobR » Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:18 pm

hammerdown7 wrote:
RobR wrote:I want to say 98+ Blazer's had the 2 piston calipers. I had a 98 and it had them.


I thought those were on the front rotors, not the rear.
You are correct. I misread it. I don't think the rear got two piston calipers. My 98 had a single with a drum brake inside the rotor hat Mine was 4x4 though
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby TimMcCabe » Thu Oct 04, 2018 7:28 am

S-10 Xtreme 2WD had the duel piston calipers, I have them on my Vega..
Hard to find in a local scrap yard, but I see them on Ebay all the time.

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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby hammerdown7 » Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:08 pm

TimMcCabe wrote:S-10 Xtreme 2WD had the duel piston calipers, I have them on my Vega..
Hard to find in a local scrap yard, but I see them on Ebay all the time.

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Tim, Those would be on the front, correct?

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Postby TimMcCabe » Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:20 am

Hi Dick,

Yes, the front brakes, I don't know about the rears, I used Cadillac calipers on the rear of mine.

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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby Bullet » Sat Oct 06, 2018 6:13 pm

I checked as far back as the GMC Syclone with the turbo 4.3 and awd. If there's been an 'S' truck with 2 piston rear calipers, that's the best possible candidate but it had single pucks. It really takes significant need to have multi piston calipers in the rear. I'm fairly convinced no 'S' truck had them.
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby LSnotchback » Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:41 am

Bullet wrote:
LSnotchback wrote:Hello guys!

As in title, I am looking for an 2 wd S-10 rear axle for my project. Can you tell me what model and year to look for with aluminium (2 piston? ) disc brake calibers?


Just want to make sure you are aware, the s10 disc brakes will not clear the body or the trailing arms without moving the calipers around quite a bit or fairly major surgery. There's several threads where this has been attempted.

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=28645



Thank you for the information. I did not knew that. But I am planning of minitubing it, so it might not be so critical.
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby LSnotchback » Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:41 am

Bullet wrote:
LSnotchback wrote:Hello guys!

As in title, I am looking for an 2 wd S-10 rear axle for my project. Can you tell me what model and year to look for with aluminium (2 piston? ) disc brake calibers?


Just want to make sure you are aware, the s10 disc brakes will not clear the body or the trailing arms without moving the calipers around quite a bit or fairly major surgery. There's several threads where this has been attempted.

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=28645



Thank you for the information. I did not knew that. But I am planning of minitubing it, so it might not be so critical.
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Re: What year of S-10 rear axle have 2 piston disc beakes?

Postby LSnotchback » Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:44 am

Bullet wrote:I checked as far back as the GMC Syclone with the turbo 4.3 and awd. If there's been an 'S' truck with 2 piston rear calipers, that's the best possible candidate but it had single pucks. It really takes significant need to have multi piston calipers in the rear. I'm fairly convinced no 'S' truck had them.


Thank you for the hard work. Then I have missunderstand at there might be 2 piston calibers at rear.
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