Little update, i had a chance to work on the caliper adaptors tonight, and got some good work done on them.
Firstly i machined a recess for the hub to sit into the adaptor plate which bmak cut out for me:
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Then i tapped two M12x1.25 holes in a pice of 12x50mm bar stock and bolted it to the back of the caliper, and then reassembled it all and jammed the caliper back onto the disc like so:
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Now i was able to measure the distance between the strut adaptor plate and the bar stock which is bolted to the caliper. I was praying for a nice size that i could easily get stock in, so i wouldnt have to machine it up much….. and well the calipers came back saying 25mm gap… i couldnt believe my luck.
Next up i grabbed a bit of 25mm box section that i had lying around and jammed it in between the strut plate and the caliper plate, and voila:
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Fits an absolute treat, so all i need to do now is to get some 25mm square solid and go to town with shaping up a plate to weld inbetween.
In some parts of that strut adaptor plate there is almost 20mm to the outer edge, so im thinking of drilling an 8mm hole and putting a couple of 8mm bolts in to add compression force to the welds, and so i have something nice and solid holding it all together. What do people think? Should i bolt the 3 pieces together as well, or just trust the welds?
Got stuck into finishing off the caliper adaptor on Sunday. Ground up a piece of 25mm plate to fit nicely in the little gap:
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Its only tacked together for now (and badly so since i couldnt get the head of the MIG into the gap and so i was welding with about 2″ of wire hanging out the front.
With it tacked together ill drill and tap some M8 holes to add clamping force and then grind it apart, bolt it back together and MIG it all up.
Rolling along nicely 🙂