Danozeman
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| posted on 18/3/06 at 02:57 PM |
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Cortina rear axle and brakes again...
Arternoon. Does anyone happen to know if Mk2 escort brakes will fit a cortina axle?
Any help greatfully recieved.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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big_wasa
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| posted on 18/3/06 at 05:22 PM |
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Capri and Cortina back plates fit both Capri and Escort axles.
I believe that the 4 bolt fixing is the same but there are differant back plate designes with differant handbrake mech positions.
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SixedUp
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| posted on 18/3/06 at 07:53 PM |
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Not sure if this is helpful or not, but I have a cortina axle, with cortina backplates and drums on my Tiger.
When the self-adjusters gave up the ghost some time back, I replaced all the internals (shoes, self-adjusters, springs, etc etc) with parts from a
Sierra 1.6, which are still easy to get hold of. They fit to the backplate without modification, and work beautifully.
Cheers
Richard
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Danozeman
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| posted on 19/3/06 at 10:19 AM |
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quote:
When the self-adjusters gave up the ghost some time back, I replaced all the internals (shoes, self-adjusters, springs, etc etc) with parts from a
Sierra 1.6, which are still easy to get hold of. They fit to the backplate without modification, and work beautifully
Thats handy to know. The reason i ask is because may be getting a coritna back axle that has everything except the actual rear brae stuff. Its got
back plate and drums but no shoes etc. I have a full set of big mk2 escort brakes sitting here.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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SixedUp
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| posted on 21/3/06 at 05:02 PM |
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Well, for the Tiger, the standard rear drums seem to be quite sufficient ... and the parts to convert didnt cost me much ... I had to rob the
self-adjusters off a 1.6 Sierra in a scrappy, the rest I bought from an autofactors for about £35 or so (brakes didnt seem like a place to worry about
shaving costs to the minimum!)
Cheers
Richard
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