[Healeys] Today's Rant

[Michael Salter]

IMHO in the early days of disc brakes I think Girling and Dunlop were a
little over anxious about the effect that water and debris would have on a
disc brake.
As modern cars very seldom, if ever use such shields it seems that they
were over cautious.


M

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 12:29 PM warthodson--- via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> They are not *absolutely* necessary, but the factory didn't install
> useless things for no reason. From you description it sounds like you do
> not have the correct dust shield for your backplate.
>
> Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
> To: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 22, 2019 10:18 am
> Subject: [Healeys] Today's Rant
>
> If you guys don't mind, here's today's rant.  I have struggling with
> fitting the backplates dust shields to my BN2 disc brake conversion.  These
> backplates would have to be fitted before the extended splined hub is
> assembled on the car.  I tried every way I thought they should be put on
> the car, but could not get the mounting tabs to line up with the caliper
> plate bolts.Not even close.  I'm ready to finish the front hubs and disc
> brakes without the backplates.  Is there any of you guys running
> conversions or standard disc brakes without these things?  Do I absolutely
> have to put these things on the car?  Ok, that's the rant for this week.
> Mike MacLean
>
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