The only way I can install the rear calipers on this chassis with 80 series springs is an error in my calculations when mounting the rear panhard bracket. Its just a miscalculation on my part, take no notice.
Rather than cut the panhard bracket off the axle housing on the left hand side and remount it further to the right, its easier to swap the caliper left to right so the brake line connection is able to be gotten to. Its a 30mm error and no big deal, I am using flexible brake lines on the rear so I will hold the caliper upright to bleed and then re-attach, its not that you bleed your rear brakes every second week. Moving the panhard to the right means I will have to fab an adjustable panhard which is really a over kill on a vehicle driven on the beach
I will fix this next year when my four 316 stainless steel rotors arrive from being manufactured and I strip down the rear & front ends. The photo below is of my other chassis with leaf springs showing the caliper mounted the correct way up on a 4 bolt rear axle. In 7 years I have only bleed the brakes once on this chassis. The area I have circled is what the panhard bracket is in the way of?
By swapping the caliper from left to right the brake line connection is on the bottom on the panhard bracket.
I can live with this? or I can twisted the calipher around higher to the next set of bolts clearing the panhard bracket but again its not a big deal in my opinion. I have had it checked by a brake specialist and its comes down to ease of bleeding the rear brakes. I can always buy another right hand brake caliper and that would only leave me with the left hand caliper with the bleed problem anyway, they are Toyota calipers and easily sourced, which probably what I will do in the short term.
PS. I run a fibre glass sports tub and on the beach the rear brakes lock up first anyway, does not matter how much I alter the bias I just have no weight in the rear. so a little air in the rear won't hurt!
