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Disc not sitting central to wilwood caliper...?
jackal - 29/11/07 at 05:54 PM

I've got wilwood calipers with cortina uprights, ali hubs and standard discs, just bolted it all up together and the discs don't quite sit central in the caliper. Nearside is worst, disc sits approx 2,80mm to outside of caliper which means i cant quite get the pad in, offside is only approx 1,00mm off centre so not too bad. Anybody else found this?
What would cause this (variations in hub/upright maybe..?) and what would be the best way to fix it, machine some off the mounting bracket or upright...?
cheers.


Paul (Notts) - 29/11/07 at 06:11 PM

Both my fronts needed the disc moving about 1.5mm away from the hubs so that they were central in the callipers. Some people suggested washers for this,but I made a full spacer to fit on the hub between the disc and hub out of some steel sheet offcuts. - seems to work well.

Paul

sierra uprights and willwood powerlite calipers.


Bob C - 29/11/07 at 06:15 PM

washer(s) between caliper & upright or a shim between disc & hub will get things central.
There's often a little 'fettling' to do to get discs/calipers true.
BTW make sure the mating surfaces are machined & not touching somewhere they shouldn't
Bob


Hellfire - 29/11/07 at 06:51 PM

We used Hi-Spec calipers and found we had to mill the mounting bracket to get the disc central.

Phil


adithorp - 29/11/07 at 07:52 PM

I had my bracket milled on my Willwood set up to get thins aligned.

adrian


jackal - 29/11/07 at 08:16 PM

excellent, thanks for the prompt replies everyone, think i'll machine the mounting brackets then
cheers.


procomp - 30/11/07 at 08:00 AM

Hi have a word With rally desighn. I thought they had sorted the issues out with the brackets for both the sierra an the cortina setup's.

Cheers Matt