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Old 10-03-2007, 04:50 PM   #65
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AU2/3/BA/BF rear brakes will not fit on the rear of an AU1 without an adapter plate between the calliper and the axle housing. At the stage. it looks like a plate of around 3mm to be used as a spacer is required - without it, the face/pad mounting area on the back part of the calliper hits the disc. The good news is that the disc fits with the handbrake shoe etc, so if you used a spacer plate with an appropriately longer bolt, then it should be OK. BUT, I will stick with the AU1 rear brakes. While the BA disc is larger, and the pads look to be slightly wider, the calliper is pretty much the same, so I don't see any benefit in changing the rears, especially as a spacer is needed and I'm not 100% sure on how safe that would be.

So today, instead of fitting the rears, I painted the fronts - it took twice as much paint as required for a series one calliper! LOL.
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