Options for front caliper with custom wheel?
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Options for front caliper with custom wheel?
I bought an 18" CMC front wheel that matched my old Drag Specialties wheels on my old heritage. Cut some spacers to center it up in the forks and doing so leaves the rotor too close to the fork to get the back plate of the caliper between the lower leg and rotor, I have just short of 1/2". It doesn't like much but it's still too close. What are my options? Offset the wheel a little? Can you get a thinner bracket or offset bracket for aftermarket caliper or worst cast maybe machine the rotor side of the wheel?
I can post pictures this afternoon.
I can post pictures this afternoon.
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There are no correct sides, original spacers wont work with this wheel. I had to make new ones and I'm running into the same situation as others that I've seen on here. If I center the wheel, the rotor Is too close to the fork, if I center the rotor the wheel is offset too much to my liking. the only things that come to mind is try to have the rotor boss on the wheel machined, some sort of caliper spacer or live with wheel/tire not being centered in the forks. Or worst case put my old 16" wheel back on....
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LTS1,
If I understand correctly, with the wheel centered, the brake caliper will mount to far towards the center of the forks preventing it from sliding over the brake rotor. Perhaps you could grind some material off the caliper mounting points which would move it outboard.
If I understand correctly, with the wheel centered, the brake caliper will mount to far towards the center of the forks preventing it from sliding over the brake rotor. Perhaps you could grind some material off the caliper mounting points which would move it outboard.
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olongapo1 you are correct. I fooled with this thing a little more last night and made some more spacers, so I've got it on and the caliper mounted. the wheel is now offset about 3/16 to the throttle side. I'm going to put the fender back on it tonight and see what it looks like, if you can't see the off set too bad, I may leave it alone.
Thanks fro the replies guy's!
Thanks fro the replies guy's!
Some years had an offset from the factory. My 05 front is offset about 1/4" to the throttle side (rear is set the same to the clutch side). I don't run a fender, but the fender mounting tabs on the forks offset the fender the same amount so it's not noticeable. You could machine the hub, just take the spacer you want to run and the spacer that makes the brake work to a machine shop and have them machine the difference off the hub mounting face. Had to do that to mine as I'm running a rear wheel up front. Kept the offset on mine though, hardly noticeable without a fender on it.
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Thanks jreichart, I saw your post on this subject when I searched wheel offset. I checked my lowers for offset fender tabs but they are the same on both sides. My fender has to actually stretch apart to be bolted up, if not it has about a 1/4" gap on one side. I'm going to bolt it flush on the throttle side and use some 1/4" spacers on the rotor side to see what that looks like, it may set center over the tire.
Last edited by LTS1; Feb 14, 2014 at 07:12 PM.
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