Just picked up a 80 iron head sport with a 73-79 Banana style rear caliper off a shovel mounted ..looks cool, has this been tried before with any success?
*Scoots in shop for trans work so I haven't tried the brake out yet?
1980 came with dual front disk brakes and a single disk rear left side. Are you talking front or rear? If front i wonder if the whole front end has been changed? Pics would help greatly.
Rear.... front is stock duel Thx I will go to shop today and take picture its a banana style off 73-79 shovelhead kinda floats on 1 pin meaning wheel moving forward should work
banana calipers are not as good as the original 80 rear caliper
the banana calipers weigh too much and end up with elongated mounting holes, which in turn ends up with the caliper on the **** and it no longer functions as it should
had one on a shovel years ago and all of the above happened, replaced it with a pm caliper, world of difference for the better
makes sense thanks for heads up since there was one already on the scoot and its a sport..it was a very strange application in the first place..should have it off the lift today and we can test it for the fun of it before changing it back THX
I have one on mine. It works fine and I've had it for a long time. Put the disk on the rear then hide it with my bags. Keeps it looking old but gives me the confidence of the disk brake.