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Old Jan 11, 2009 | 09:11 PM
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I think it would definitely be worth it for the rims alone... Do you have any more feedback Lance?
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 12:16 PM
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TTT...Looking to upgrade my 99 drums to 05+ drums. Were you able to get this done lance? If so what all was involved?
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 06:23 PM
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I really want to see somebody try and drill and tap where the red arrow is in the attached pic. This would move the banjo bolt and hose to the inside of the caliper and out of the way. You could just plug the old hole with a bolt/copper washer.

They only cast one caliper for both left and right, so there are two bosses for the bleeder screw. I think if you drill and tap the other boss you'd be in business. Of course you'd need to take the caliper apart to get all the metal out.

I'd experiment with this if someone wants to send me some junk calipers to practice on.
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Old Jun 10, 2009 | 07:11 AM
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I am willing to try this in the near future as I have an old set of calipers laying around

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Old Jun 10, 2009 | 08:01 PM
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i haven't done the swap yet but might have a truck lined up to do the swap with. (rcsb to rcsb)

great info Vanilla, sounds like it would work.
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