Bendix to Hilux Caliper mod

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sat Apr 25, 09 12:52 pm

Excellent, Glen, what is the wheel clearance like with this modification?

ANTON · Post by **ANTON** » Sun Apr 26, 09 2:08 pm

Thanks fro posting that Glen.
Those are the exact calipers I've got.I'll be taking the lot a an engineer i know for him to make the brackets.
I pick up a disc master cylinder off Clivey last nite at he Chelsea Cruise so i have all the parts.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Mon Apr 27, 09 2:56 pm

Looks bloody good Nice one!

if you had taken the disk down 1/4- half an inch would they have bolted up without the bracket??

Dave

ANTON · Post by **ANTON** » Mon Apr 27, 09 5:16 pm

to get it bolt straight up i reckon you would need at least 1/2 inch of outside diameter but then you will also have to machine the center hub to clear the caliper(See picture 1).The offset of the pad and disc is about 1/4 inch out of line as-well

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Apr 28, 09 6:33 pm

All good stuff , useful for anyone else thinking of going disc setup for not much $$$$$$$$$$$.

Any way you can relocate the hose to hard line bracket? , or maybe tie it up to take the stress off the bend?

As said , great stuff , most aftermarket disc setups are Bananarama! , cost a lot of $$$$$$ too.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Apr 28, 09 6:43 pm

A good bit of hands on tech, just what the board needs, thanks for taking the time.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Wed Apr 29, 09 10:11 am

ANTON wrote:to get it bolt straight up i reckon you would need at least 1/2 inch of outside diameter but then you will also have to machine the center hub to clear the caliper(See picture 1).The offset of the pad and disc is about 1/4 inch out of line as-well

Ahhh

damn A bod front hubs must be a bit smaller in 2 dimenions. will have to see how Kev_B gets on with his.

he's got the slightly smaller caliper 4 pot 2 big 2 little
soild disks on aussie A body spindles. should just bolt on with a little bit of clearancing of the pad inner radius and about 3mm off the diameter of the disk. i.e the crusty bit

guess you loose some benefit for every mm or so that comes off but gain from having bigger better supported pads.

so i know it works on

68 69 US dart
VF solids VG VH vented aussie
with little messing

but brackets needed for US B body

now the aussie falcon also used the same calipers in 71 wonder if it works on them.

Dave

TrevD · Post by **TrevD** » Wed Apr 29, 09 5:57 pm

great conversion, if anyone can draw these up im sure i coild knock up a few sets for reasonable cost.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Apr 29, 09 8:02 pm

Getting a supply of spindles would be the hard bit unless you can do it on Drum spindles....

ANTON · Post by **ANTON** » Wed Apr 29, 09 9:51 pm

TrevD
I've done a cad drawing of the bracket as i have just dropped the parts to my engineer and he will have my brackets done by Friday. Making the brackets isn't the only mod you need to do to get these to fit, you need file the caliper a bit and if you want the pads to make full contact to the full width of the discs you will also need to modify the pads back plates.
Once it finish mine i will post detailed photos and details for everyone.

I think it could be possible to do this conversion on drum spindles if you can mill two flat areas on the reverse and then drill them and tap them. turning clearance may be the only problem as the mounting bracket will be closer to the center of the spindle and might interfere with the UCA. I might look at this when i do the swap and take my drum spindles off.