New rear suspension setup?

[bigrich]

My advice....if your rear disc / caliper setup is only using 1/2 the pad then bin it PDQ.

Any mod that effectively compromises your disc / pad contact area is a big no no.

Question...is this setup as Marlin advise?.... I can't see how they could possibly market a setup like this?

Rich

[craig]

Will do john! Only just delivered yesterday finally!
Fully expect them to just fit otherwise I will be on the phone as I'm not prepared to chuck anymore money away

This aside the quality of the product compar3d to my original setup is very noticeably improved

[alackofspeed]

Originally Posted by bigrich

My advice....if your rear disc / caliper setup is only using 1/2 the pad then bin it PDQ.

Any mod that effectively compromises your disc / pad contact area is a big no no.

Question...is this setup as Marlin advise?.... I can't see how they could possibly market a setup like this?

Rich

Rich,

John's is, in terms of caliper / disc contact area, exactly the same as the blue Marlin demonstrator I saw a couple of years ago, so it's fair to say John's is as Marlin intended.

The situation is that the Nissan disc is 260mm dia, and the intended Rover calipers are for a 240mm dia disc. The disc's outer surface is as close as it can reasonably be to the caliper carrier, and thus the disc can't be fully inserted into the caliper, because the disc bottoms out against the carrier, before the whole pad is able to cover the disc.

Putting a 260mm rover caliper on won't help, as the lugs are too far out. Ideally the lugs need moving toward the centre of the hub, and a caliper designed for 260mm used.

I could probably explain the above with a picture far better, but I'm too lazy to sketch anything up at the moment.

[limpabit]

Sorry for the thread hijack Craig.

When I decided to go for the updated rear end, I decided to go the whole hog. Top and bottom wishbones (bottom one was damaged in accident), hub tie rods etc. With the standard Rover calipers and Nissan Almeria (258mm)read discs.

Before I noticed the half a pad problem, I had the problem of the caliper fouling the bottom wishbone.

Here's one of many pictures I sent to Marlin explaining the problem. Trying to explain where it was fouling.



Know after many emails and conversations with Mark, and repeated requests for pictures of there setup, none forthcoming, I was told I'm fitting them wrong (two carriers bolts). But could not be explained what I was doing wrong. I ended up ending conversations as I was getting nowhere with Marlin and swapping the hubs from side to side. Then fitting the calipers on the rear on the hub.

I know of another builder that had the same problem and something had to be altered by Marlin.

I've been using the half a pad setup know for 1300 miles so far.

In the long term, I'm going to go for the full front and back TD setup. Or experiment with the Nissan calipers maybe.

[craig]

Well after today i'm in a postion where everything is now stripped off!

Just waiting for new bearings!

Question is has anyone actually tried fitting zr 160 calipers on the rear with the new setup??

Craig