Larry,
You can install brake calipers in any position, so long as the bleed screws (and
the drill-holes they lead from) are at or near the top of the piston.
Theo Smit
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wright, Larry [SMTP:larry.wright@usop.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:02 PM
> To: 'Bob Palmer'; Wright, Larry; National Corporation (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: inquiry 091399a (follow-up)
>
>
>
> Lawrence R. Wright
> Purchasing Analyst
> Andrews Office Products Div. of USOP
> larry.wright@usop.com (new)
> Ph. 301.386.7923 Fx. 301.386.5333
>
>
> Bob Palmer replied:
> > The correct position for the Dale A. rear disk brake calipers
> > is forward of
> > the axle. Let's see, that's 9 o'clock of the LR and 3 o'clock
> > on the RR;
> > unless you're under the car and then it's reversed. ;-)
>
> Aah. Ya know, I don't what technical difference it might make,
> anyhoo. My truck's front calipers "lead", on my wife's Nissan they
> "follow". Good to know I can put them "in front", it just didn't say
> that in the instructions (LOL), and the only installation I've seen was
> the reverse. BTW, I wonder how the right-hand handbrake cable is
> routed; behind or ahead of the rear axle?
[Theo Smit] <snip>
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