The new 4pot brake calipers are nice but the rear brake pad hits the caliper mounting bracket. The instructions from HiSpec are generic for any car – for the Morgan it should be made clear that the brake mounts have to be modified. I was unsure about this but friendly fellow Morgan drivers confirmed this to me on the TalkMorgan forum. Using a dremel was suggested but I found it much easier to use a hand file.
Yesterday I did the firste bracket while it was still on the car. Thankfully I replaced the 4 bolts that attach the bracket to the stub axle in order to fit the main spring bearing a while ago. For whatever reason the idea to just take the bracket to the workbench did not occur to me yesterday – today I just took of the brackets. Filing them makes quite a bit of dust – and cleaning this from the car isn’t really fun. Mounted in the vise – it only took 20minutes of fiddling. From roughly 11.2mm material on the bracket I had to file down a notch more than 3mm – to get to approx 8mm. As I did not want to take too much material of the brackets I also choose to take about 1mm from the pad itself. As you can see from the picture I filed down the iron on the corners down to the brake pad material which I did not touch.
I cleaned the brackets and gave them two coats of Hammerit tonight – after two more layers I can hopefully complete the front and brake system this week.
Fixing C6622 
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