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Title: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: Taylor on January 16, 2016, 05:32:45 am Need some advice on fitting Flat 4 BRMs to a '64 bug with drum brakes. I have only tried it once but the center cap hit the dust cover. They fit fine on my '67 and I see plenty of people with them on early cars so there must be something I missed. Do people run a different dust cover? No dust cover? Smash the dust cover? Some advice would be helpful. Thanks
Title: Re: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: brmmark on January 16, 2016, 10:06:01 am Have the same problem. Still in the proces of having a spacer made to make some room for the dust cover. But didn't find the time to do so.
Title: Re: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: Chip on January 16, 2016, 16:53:15 pm You could always try running 67 drums. There is a conversion bearing that allows you to run late drums/rotors on l/p spindles. The only thing I'm not sure about is the backing plate. I don't know if it's got the same bolt patten as an early one.
The bearing is an EMPI part. I'm currently running them on my 60 bug in order to run a rotor made for a later car. Works great! Title: Re: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: Larry S on January 16, 2016, 17:22:16 pm I am thinking that I saw some for sale that are made a little taller so they clear the older front drums.....
Title: Re: Post by: K-Roc on January 16, 2016, 18:04:40 pm Smashing the dust cover will work
Title: Re: Post by: Taylor on January 16, 2016, 18:34:43 pm Smashing the dust cover will work You think so even with the speedo cable? I'm not opposed to it ;D Title: Re: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: K-Roc on January 17, 2016, 01:17:08 am You may have to trim the tip of the cable as close to the circlip groove as possible.
Title: Re: Flat 4 BRMs with early drum brakes Post by: j-dub on January 19, 2016, 16:24:56 pm I don't have BRMs but in the past when I needed to clear aftermarket wheels I used something like these:
http://fisherbuggies.com/bugpack/vw-bug-beetle-rail-wheel-dust-caps The ones I have were made by bugpack, i am sure you can still get them throught EMPI. You do have to make your own hole for the speedo cable, I punched a hole with a small philips screw driver then used a bigger one to get the hole the right size and square |