At the moment, i am wanting to put a 17" front rim on my bucket. As the stock rim is a 16" and isn't very fun finding cheap sticky tires for it.
My rear rim is a 2.75x17" so thats okay. I have sitting around (thanks to hamish), a 2.15x17" of a FXR150 rear.
I was thinking of putting the 2.15 of the FXR rear on to the front of my bucket. But the original disc on this rim is obviously too small to be all the efficient.
I was thinking of using the disc off the 16" rim on the FXR rear. Because the size is larger, and also the caliper height would be the same.
The problem is the FXR rear has a 4 bolt disc, where as the disc i want too use has a 6 bolt hole. Therefore a disc converter needs to be fabricated. I have already checked if there is enough room between the forks and there is plenty.
First question is, is there anything wrong with using a rear rim on the front?
The second question is, what is the best way of making a disc converter.
I would think it needs to be quite accurate. What thickness should i use?
I did make a prototype one on some 3mm steel. By punching a center, measuring with a metal compass too the right diameter of where the holes are with respect to the center of the disc for both disc's. Then lined up the disc holes made a small crater roughly where the hole center should be for a starting point, and used the compass to find the rest. This worked okay, but not sure if it would be accurate enough.
I was thinking maybe i should turn down some steel on the lathe, and mark the the diameter of were it should go then, drill one hole and bolt the disc on and drill the others. For each disc.
Any other ideas?
Thanks Heaps
-Kyle
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