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« Last post by roadking77 on Today at 01:34:07 PM »If anyone has a stock disc brake settup from 79, is it possible to post some pics of the caliper and in particular the line feeding into the caliper.
I am having a devil of a time getting my rear brakes hooked up. I bought calipers from Firebird Central and after talking with them found out they are for someone doing a conversion to disc brakes. I have hard lines installed which I thought were exact reproductions, I may have bought them from inline tube? The hard lines I have do not fit into the Caliper. The Caliper I have is made to accept a banjo bolt not a flare nut fitting that I have. I have tried getting parts to marry the two together but so far no luck. I found something close from JEGS, an inverted flare female fitting but the threading is off. I called and what I got from them is the closest thing they have.
Looking in my 1979 Service Supplement Manual I see nothing in reference to the 'feed' line other than a note that says
"if brass bolt and block were removed..." Looking at Tom's thread about a parking brake I can see in the pic what I think is the brass block.
SO, I am looking for ideas, or if someone has an original pair of calipers that can be rebuilt that they want to part with.
I am having a devil of a time getting my rear brakes hooked up. I bought calipers from Firebird Central and after talking with them found out they are for someone doing a conversion to disc brakes. I have hard lines installed which I thought were exact reproductions, I may have bought them from inline tube? The hard lines I have do not fit into the Caliper. The Caliper I have is made to accept a banjo bolt not a flare nut fitting that I have. I have tried getting parts to marry the two together but so far no luck. I found something close from JEGS, an inverted flare female fitting but the threading is off. I called and what I got from them is the closest thing they have.
Looking in my 1979 Service Supplement Manual I see nothing in reference to the 'feed' line other than a note that says
"if brass bolt and block were removed..." Looking at Tom's thread about a parking brake I can see in the pic what I think is the brass block.
SO, I am looking for ideas, or if someone has an original pair of calipers that can be rebuilt that they want to part with.
Thanks - I'll check that out when I get back home in a few days!
There is no stop or centre position for it. I dont know what happened to it as I am pretty sure it was ok when I did the initial work. You will probably get to yours before I do mine though.