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The last pic of the front end is pretty much as is now, only difference is it all fits and the wheel goes round. Disc found to be 2.9mm so way below min wear, have ordered a better one, New wheel bearings were being fitted last night till I hit my thumb instead of the drift. Ouch!
I'll finish that off when the bleeding stops.
Had to take a bit off the caliper mounting lugs, also off the lugs on the forks. Spacers for the disc 3mm out from wheel and a couple of mm off back of caliper body. So now Caliper clears wheel spokes, Caliper is central over disc and wheel is central between forks. Made Axle out of RS/GSXR and machined new alloy collar for non disc side. New tyre fitted on a nice sunny day in the garden last weekend. Just a few new fasteners to come this week and I can bolt it up for the final time.
Brake line from RS was too short so one coming soon 625mm long and that's about it, hopefully.
This conversion is just about do-able but its not easy. If you are shy about cutting material from calipers or mounts then don't attempt it. I'll be keeping a careful eye on it for cracking etc.

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  1. kujau1 June 2017 at 09:13

    hi
    do you have a e-mail adres ?
    I have an exact same building on going.

    tony

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