Okay, skinny rimmed hard plastic deep dish steering wheel.
We gotta' cut some opear windows back there and put a chrome luggage rack on the trunk too...that should match the awesome retro-tech drum brakes
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Turns out they were reducing the truck's cost and weight without compromising brake performance or safety.
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Wait,
How are drum brakes lighter than disc brakes.
Sure, a wheel cylinder is lighter than a caliper. But after many years working with brake lathes I can assure you that discs are typically lighter than drums. Best you can hope for is a few ounces either way.
...and when you pull off a disc, you are not as likely to be exposed to all the brake dust the friction material ever created.
Pull off a drum and it's a huge cloud of bronze, copper, iron, steel wool, Kevlar, ceramic, Bamboo, asbestos....who knows?