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Vented disc brake help

Postby savagesam » Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:19 pm

Ok so was going to change the pad on my transit only to be shocked it fitted with 4 pot calipers and vented disc now the disc are shot I could use them as a Stanley blade there that thin now I can't seem to find any vented disc for sale would solid ones fit does it matter if there for twin or single wheel and I have brought pads already thinking it has normal calipers would these fit they look like the one I have removed
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Re: Vented disc brake help

Postby bambi mk 1 » Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:36 pm

The calipers and discs are wider.If you use non vented discs the pads will fall out :shock:
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Re: Vented disc brake help

Postby savagesam » Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:02 am

Yeah I was thinking about that but manage to find a set on ebay but is a single wheel and twin wheel the same
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Re: Vented disc brake help

Postby conrod » Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:26 am

discs are interchangeable between twin wheel and single wheel, and twin wheel had either solid disc or vented as an option, but single wheel never had vented! Should be easy enough to find vented discs, I founds loads of different ones about 12 months ago when I bought some for mine. If you do fit solid discs, then you really should split the caliper, remove the spacer between the two halves, and bolt back together. Try this crowd, I bought some caliper rebuild kits off them, they list the vented discs:

http://brakeparts.co.uk/#page=parts&pag ... .0+OHC+VAN

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Re: Vented disc brake help

Postby savagesam » Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:16 am

Thanks I brought some off ebay in the end but thanks for the help
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