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The removal of a bearing on a shaft by applying force to the outer race is not a good idea as the balls can indent the raceways. Also as the half shaft is only secured by a single ball race which by it's design has an amount of clearance in the axial mode, then the movement on the shaft when the car corners will force the caliper piston/pistons to be pushed back and this will need extra movement on the brake pedal to take up the slack.
Some years ago a friend with an SJ413 fitted a disc brake conversion and found that the brake pedal could travel halfway before the brakes operated, a situation he found alarming to say the least!
Roger Fairclough wrote: The removal of a bearing on a shaft by applying force to the outer race is not a good idea as the balls can indent the raceways. Also as the half shaft is only secured by a single ball race which by it's design has an amount of clearance in the axial mode, then the movement on the shaft when the car corners will force the caliper piston/pistons to be pushed back and this will need extra movement on the brake pedal to take up the slack.
Some years ago a friend with an SJ413 fitted a disc brake conversion and found that the brake pedal could travel halfway before the brakes operated, a situation he found alarming to say the least!
Roger
As an aside.....don't let your mate touch brakes....pedal should be perfect.....one of the reasons to get away from drums, along with the ease of changing rear wheel bearings.
Will the rear axle not be the same as the previous Jimny?.....surely it will.
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