Morris Minor Owners Club

But how often would you change discs? Pads are cheap. Interesting your comment about the wheels being spaced out. Does it have wheel spacers to clear the discs? Or is it running modified wider hubs. Mine has Marina front discs and the wheels look to be in the normal positions. It has different (wid...

ManyMinors wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:56 am

Itstheegg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:56 am if I had drums all round I could replace all four drums and all shoes for less than £100 delivered.

You could, but the quality would be very poor

I proved that up using parts from ESM, which I’ve never had a problem with. Are their brake parts not good?

I'm surprised by your comment that the discs are expensive to maintain as I don't see why that should be :-? . There shouldn't be much to do really. There isn’t much to do, but discs and pads (predominantly discs) are much more expensive than drums and shoes. I could replace the front discs and pad...

Hi, I bought a 1968 four door saloon last year that had a Ford-based disc brake conversion done about 25 years ago. I like the servo, but not overly fond of the discs as they bring the front wheels right out to the edge of the wheel arch and they’re much more expensive to maintain. I have the origin...