9.4 brakes

[dan.bubb at gmail.com (Dan Bubb)]

Let me rephrase:
>From about 1980 on "There is no difference in the housing......." ;^)

Yeah I was aware there was a lot of variation in the earlier calipers
but all that stuff has dropped off my mental horizon.
Thanks for correcting me.
Dan

On 9/7/05, GREG DUNN <greggearhead@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Gonna disagree there.  Big time.
> 
> The early cars had a couple different styles of calipers.  If a non-Kelsey
> Hayes caliper is on the spindle, there is a good chance that the caliper
> bolt pattern/spacing is WAY too small for bolting up Kelsy Hayes calipers to
> use thinner pads and 9.4 vented rotors (not possible with the other early
> calipers) and therefore also impossible to bolt up the 10.1 rotors and
> calipers.
> 
> In around 1980 it was all taken to the later KH caliper, and the ball joint
> diameter was also increased from something like 18 to 20mm.
> 
> FYI.
> 
> gd
> 
> _______________________________________________________
> There is no difference in the housing as far as mounting the brake
> caliper is concerned for 9.4 non-vented, 9.4 vented or 10.1.
> There is a difference in the housing to accommodate the 100mm outer CV
> though. According to ETKA this changed happened mid 84 although my
> late 84 did not have them.
> 
>