Hi everybody,
As some of you may recall, I already made the mistake of buying
rebuild kits for my MGB's old brake calipers and then deciding I needed new
ones, but that's all behind me now as I got my rebuilt calipers from Moss a
few days ago (thanks to Dick B).
Anyway, I'm in the process of installing them on the car, and I'm a
little confused. When I bolted one up to the axle, the disc was not
centered in the caliper (see my cheesy ascii art below), and the caliper
seemed to make a slight contact somewhere with the disc even with no pads
installed.
Disc
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Well, I went ahead and put the pads in. Due to the non-centered
disc, the inner pad slipped right in without even touching the disc, and the
other I had to push pretty hard to get it to slide in between the edge of
the caliper and the disc. With the pads in, the whole wheel will turn but
not very easily.
I went and did the other side, to see if there was a difference
there, but it went on exactly the same as the first (disc off center in the
caliper towards the front).
Unfortunately I don't remember what the old calipers looked like
when I took them off the car a while ago, and I'm no brake expert. Is this
off-centering a problem or is it normal? If it's wrong, any ideas what
could be wrong? I checked the obvious things I could think of (putting the
caliper on the wrong side, installing the wheel hub incorrectly on the axle,
or installing the disc incorrectly on the hub) and didn't immediately find
anything that looked amiss.
Thanks for any suggestions! Once I get this figured out, and get a
couple more brake lines in place I'll actually be able to put fluid in
(DOT-5, I'm not going anywhere near my nice new paint job with DOT-4), bleed
the brakes, and have the first complete system in my restoration project
working again!
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Jeremy DuBois jer@thlogic.com
Manager, Info Systems http://www.thlogic.com/~jer/
Thermalogic Corporation '60 TR3A, '74 MGB, '76 Spit
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