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Re: GREEN caliper pistons

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: GREEN caliper pistons
From: RWM <RWM@rwmann.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:39:28 -0400
Supposedly, a Dunlop rear disc swap comes directly off the Jag Mark IX
"saloon".

datsunmike wrote:
> 
> Twin cam MGAs and early E types used them also. I almost fell on the floor
> when I was looking over an E and saw Roadster brakes.
> 
> I do believe that here in the US Nissan's calipers are cheaper than the Jags
> or MGs. Anything on a Jag costs 2x what a Roadster part will cost.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <RoadsterGB@aol.com>
> To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:49 PM
> Subject: Re: GREEN caliper pistons
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > The last calipers I bought, I received fully assembled from a MkII Jaguar
> > Specialist - they were original Dunlops, not licensed Dunlop Sumitimo,
> they
> > were cheaper than Nissan (who still had caliper sets in Amsterdam) and
> they
> > just bolted straight on.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > <<If you buy a rebuilt or new caliper it is reassembled.
> > Just bolt it back on the car properly and then bleed the
> > system.>>

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