Gold caliper on to 2010 forks

Do they just go straight on with the little ring things to pack out the mounts.

 

May I ask why you are putting old model gold blocks on instead the mono's ??

 

I've put the 2010 fork on to my 07 as they have Maxton gp30 internals. So it's a fork upgrade and I have gold calipers on the bike.

The forks went in easy as and the brakes fit on to the mounts but there is a lot of drag so something isn't quite right.

 

Got the wheel in and brakes on and there was some serious dragging. Took it all apart again and the wheel runs smoothly. My calipers are the gold earlier units and the bolt spacing is right but no sure if they need a spacer or something. Any advice, are the calipers slightly different heights?

Second question. Is there any difference between the axle/spindles in the different forks. As my mine from the 07 fork seems to good very deep into the leg and threaded side sticks out more than it did on the other fork.

Any help much appreciated.

 

I believe the gold calipers have different mounting bolts to the black ones, which may explain why things are not quite right. Think the axles are the same though.

 

The bolts on the 09 are a smaller collar width I think but the same thread

I had to remove the dust plate on my 2010 calipers when fitting on my 06 and that elimated the drag noise on mine fully.

Try leaving the plate out and try then

 

Cheers guys. The thread on the bolts is the same as they screw straight in but there is a different sized recess around the receiving thread on the off side so if agree that the bolts are caliper specific. I'll try taking the plates out of the back of the caliper tomorrow and go from there.

 

I can't see any dust plate to speak of in the gold calipers. Only the pads and spring. Inside the caliper goes straight to the inner face of the caliper

 

I tried fitting the spindle without the wheel in and it seems to wind through too far. Such that the face of the nut side winds into the space where the wheel would be before its even starts to tighten.

 

I thought the spindles were the same but i'm not 100% sure. It prob does wind in further with the wheel out as I think it stops on the wheel spacer. Do your gold calipers have the silver plate at the back this is what's meant by dust plate. From memory I think you may need 5mm spacer between calipers and mountings. But if they do have these plates try taking these out first

 

The only thing on the back of the calipers are the H shaped spring things. Is that not a spring but a dust plate?

 

Yes think they are too stop the pads rattling

 

I run mine without them to try and aid cooling