Good evening all, I'm doing some more work on the rear brakes on my mk1 and I noticed that the axle it has seems to have the mountings for some calipers. I stuck my head under my mk2 and noticed it does not have the same mountings on it. I apologise for the poor pictures as my phones battery is pretty low but It should be relatively clear what I mean.

Mk1 Axle:

Mk2 axle:

Notice the lack of mounts?

 

I know my mk1 should be drums and i'm pretty sure it should have the same axle as a mk2 where there are no mounts for discs.

Could well be a very stupid question I know but I'm very curious as to why it seems to have a disc axle under it.

Is that a rarb on it  looks like it if so that explains the other 2 holes as its for the height you want to set it.

Edited 15 December, 20214 yr by Stewartasb

No the one with the rarb is my mk2.

The mk1 axle is the first one. Its not as easy to see with all the mud but theres two "ears" coming from the axle that arent on the axle under the mk2.

My rear beam is exactly the same with the two 'ears' and my car is just a 1.4mpi. Maybe the rear beam is universal to be able to take rear discs.

Ah got you and my car has the same lugs on it I understood  that there is an adapter kit if you want to convert but there are other parts needed may work out on the expensive side unless there are donor parts can be used.

4 minutes ago, Stewartasb said:

Ah got you and my car has the same lugs on it I understood  that there is an adapter kit if you want to convert but there are other parts needed may work out on the expensive side unless there are donor parts can be used.

 

I wouldn't convert, I'd rather have drums for the stronger handbrake, rear discs do so little work they always rot out but RICErs will be RICErs...

Weird, I always thought the reason you had to change the axle for discs was because the drum axle didnt have the mounts for a caliper carrier. So thats why everyone who swapped for discs just swapped the whole axle out. If those mounts are useable to mount carriers to I'd probably get brakes, lines etc to go onto it and put it into my mk2.

 

No, it's just a LOT less work to take the complete axle off a scrap car and swap it over.

@ DieselMonte: I've just been looking at your project thread. How did you manage to crash your car in a field?

Big concrete cattle drinker

In other words, one hell of a smack then?

Got to ask empty field just a big concrete lump were you doing a bit of the old Tommy makkinen lol 😆 

At a good speed too, that fields very hilly and because it doesnt have much power I got to gunning it going downhill and putting it into a slide to carry as much speed as I could when I looped around to go back up it. It was a while ago but I think I was going about 50mph when I hit the drinker.

More or less I was in a slide, hit the drinker head on, sent it flying and spun out. 

Just now, Stewartasb said:

Got to ask empty field just a big concrete lump were you doing a bit of the old Tommy makkinen lol 😆 

Not really, that field hadnt been used in a long time and the drinker was covered over by grass and weeds. I had a loop made for myself and I guess I kept slowly working my way inwards over time. 

You can sorta see the dirt track I'd carved out, was particularly thick with weeds near the middle of the field conveniently hiding this wacking big drinker under it.

 

36 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

In other words, one hell of a smack then?

 

If it makes you feel better I can top that I managed to hit a gate post on my mtb do a superman over the handle bars and fly head first into a very well concreted in dog **** bin broken collar bone 2 ribs and a wrist do imagine me behind the wheel 🙈

1 minute ago, Stewartasb said:

If it makes you feel better I can top that I managed to hit a gate post on my mtb do a superman over the handle bars and fly head first into a very well concreted in dog **** bin broken collar bone 2 ribs and a wrist do imagine me behind the wheel 🙈

 

eek!

9 minutes ago, TMB said:

 

 

Aye, that's the image I was trying to find from the thread. Cheers Lee!

23 minutes ago, DieselMonte said:

 

Always look at the reg plate of your Fabia and think it's someone shouting to their mate. Obviously the "01" looks like "OI", and the MO could be someone called Mo, so you can get where I'm coming from...

11 minutes ago, TMB said:

 

Never seen a car take so much abuse and keep going. Hit hard enough to break the starter in two, put a new starter on it and it fires up after being sat for over a year like it was nothing. The matrix that replaced the mk1 couldn't hold a candle to it there.

3 minutes ago, DieselMonte said:

Never seen a car take so much abuse and keep going.

 

I'm quite convinced that it's going to outlive all of us. Like a cockroach after a nuclear blast almost.