1200 Disc Brake Swap

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Swapping your front drum brakes to disc brakes is a worthwile easy upgrade.

Overview

If your 1200 has all-drum brakes, take note that disc brakes are:

• easier to work on
• do not need adjusting every three months
• More resistant to fading -- safer after repeated stops (they dissipate heat far better)

Remember that discs do not stop any faster than correctly adjusted drums, but who has time to adjust the brakes?

Swapping 1200 drums for discs is easy if you obtain the entire strut/spring/brake assemblies for both sides. Just bolt in the new assembly and bleed the front brakes.

If your 1200 has a single-outlet master, for safety's sake obtain the disc-brake master cylinder and front brake hard lines. If you already have a dual-outlet master just remove the residual valve from the Front section.

Why not bolt the disc brakes onto the drum-brake struts? Because the drum-brake struts do not have caliper mounting brackets.

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