what did you do to your micra today ?
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This is tight wheel clearance
Force racing wheels? you certainly don't want to visit a gravel trap with those.
I'm fitting Micra brakes to a Mini hub, may even see if they'll squeeze under a 10" wheel.
Yup, I got Carl to make me up a set specifically to fit behind the brakes I had designed.
Hear ya on the gravel trap, that would be a monumental stuffage!
I had to chop mine up with a angle grinder totally seized on.did my wish bones today thanks to @frank easy with pressure added and a bar, I don't use manual book think frank has learnt me lot
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pollyp
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I don't have clearance issue cos using 6.5jx15 et40 alloys and i use 1mm washer between hub & carrier to center the carrier onto the discs
Right the spacers on 1mm but if I got that on it will defo catch my rims, as they only 14inch but do u have to have the spacers in
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That is very tight and it's having no problems ?This is tight wheel clearance
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It's very strange that you seem to be the only one the doesn't have spacing issues with those calipers. You do understand where the spacers go don't you? It's between the hub and carrier. Not the carrier and caliper.
No, it was designed that way. The brief was to use a 280mm disc setup with a 13" wheel. Fine in everything circuit related but totally useless on a rally car or in a gravel trap
So it was made for them rims ? They look great and guessing any power on them wouldn't matterNo, it was designed that way. The brief was to use a 280mm disc setup with a 13" wheel. Fine in everything circuit related but totally useless on a rally car or in a gravel trap
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Now let's start some work on the drivers side got all my tools ready wheels off,
All done took me 20 mins and now it's very stiff no knocks,
Let's move on to next passenger side
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pollyp
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if nothing is fouling, it ain't essential.
but in theory an offset caliper carrier could cause few issues:
- caliper carrier or edge of pad slides could scrape along the disc face when hot or disc is warped,
- excessive gap on one side of the disc from the brake pad sliders could lead to unsupported/jammed brake pad when the pads are getting very low,
- when new thick pads are installed and the slider pins bottom out or can't slide any further in to let the caliper move outwards cos the caliper carrier is too far inwards, it could cause the outer pad to bind & wear unevenly
This is second part after my wishbones was fitted while that was done I started on k11 brakes to gtir brakes so here comes the disk off brake line off,
took the caliper apart to check the fittings as u can see my hands all same as the brake fluid now. I took the calipers as I don't get the Diffrent with spacers or without and @pollyp and others was right if I don't fit one it catches on the bottom so if I had a pad fitted it will eat them up and grind the caliper u can see that on this
now need to get 1mm spacers then bleed the brake system up, but I haven't got a helper ?
k11 and gtir brakes anyone can take the k11 brake set to good home.
and same again it doesn't catch on the disk so will try with spacers on,
and that's one job done, any Diffrents in geniune wishbones or not @frank
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Wheels were made to fit the brakes, (caliper offset etc). No power/torque limit I'd have any issues with.
pollyp
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doesn't matter what supplier they're from, the common cheap & fast design & weld quality of where the arm meets the rear pin is still fatally flawed for the potential stress of these brakes to break them.
technically they're fine for original NA spec but once you upgrade to GTIR with sticky tyres on fast tracks especially with turbo then it's no surprise the weak flawed welds eventually show up.
I've now reinforced mine with more welds all around that pin to reduce any stress points
pollyp
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aye the driveshaft & nut holds the wheel bearing & hub together.
without the driveshaft & nut, the wheel hub is simply held onto the hub support via the tiny poor plastic clips in the wheel bearings that connects the outer bearing race together.
so PLEASE azzy do not push or turn the car around a corner when it's sitting on it's wheels with no dirveshafts cos otherwise ur wheels will buckle off and ruin the bearings (as I once found out yrs ago)
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If the ball joints was fitted maybe it would have lifted higher up, that's why it looks like that in pichuh ?
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double huh, you do know what a driveshaft and CV joint are don't you?
