my rear brakes are toast, in fact the one is still smoking after being parked for 20 minutes. Anyway I found a thread  on here about 3rd gen brakes for the front of the 24v trucks, and I was wondering if the rear brakes on a 3rd gen will fit as well?

Sound like a simple fix. It the pistons have gorwn in size with caked on brake fluid. Just remove them and clean the pistons up.

 

As for doing the 3rd Gen brake up grade as far as I know they do fix both front and read axles but you must change tires and wheels.

I'm running 3rd gen wheels already. Will the rear pads fit the 2nd gen calipers? It looks like you need caliper brackets to do the fronts..

Same for the rear you need caliper and brackets as well.

Hijack! So what's it take to covert from rear drums to disk brakes? Are 2nd gen backing played rotors and calipers/brackets a direct bolt on?

Hijack! So what's it take to covert from rear drums to disk brakes? Are 2nd gen backing played rotors and calipers/brackets a direct bolt on?

 

What I know a change of axle. I don't think the axle stubs are the same.

Like he said^^^^^^^^^^

A long while back I saw a post in the Cummins forum that was about using 3rd gen brakes on a 2nd gen vehicle.  I saved the link for future reference.

 

There might be some useful info in there:

 

http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/98-5-02-non-powertrain/160226-my-3rd-gen-brake-swap-pics-56k-beware.html