hotchkis springs=> suspension travel / clearence caliber

[night_rider_692004]

Hello!

My planned rear suspension / brake setup:

hotchkis multi leaf, Vette C5 rear disc brakes.
This afternoon I installed my disc brakes with a dummy plastic brake caliber bracket. Now I noticed that the caliber is not completely in the wheel, because I use 2" adapters with Vette 9,5" wheels and the installation is axle flange=> disc=> adapter=> wheel. You can see approx. 1,5 " of the caliber. I know that I have only 1" between tire and inner wheel housing. The caliber is 4" underneath the chassis (wheel housing). So if I have more than 4" of suspension travel the caliber (emergency brake cable bracket) could hit the chassis, which will be not funny.
The calibers are now behind the rear, because there's more clearance to the chassis and no clearance problems with the shocks.. But the emergency brake cable will go to the floor, because on the Vette the calibers are in front of the rear axle. Changing the calibers from left to right is not possible because the bleeding screw should be at the highest point.

Difficult to describe, perhaps I could send a pic.

[rizzos442]

What you write makes sense. There are many applications where you can not ru nthe calipers according to "stock" because of clearance issues.
In my opinion, you will have to run another caliper. If the bleeder screw is on the bottom, it is wrong!
What I am trying to figure out is why you can not slide those calipers back more and run a set of custom made brackets? This may be your only solution to complete this system.

[night_rider_692004]

Hello!

I could only change the position of the adapter and the disc. But then I need a 2 "spacer for the caliber bracket and I think this is a risc of binding the caliber bracket during braking. I'm thinking about an own fabricated link system for the emergency brake cable. The advantige ist that I can use the calibers horizontal behind (to the trunk) the axle tubes, calibers on their right sides and the cables to the top.