{"id":96,"date":"2005-07-25T07:14:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T05:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/puma\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-10-24T06:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T04:51:54","slug":"disk-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Disk Brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97\" title=\"20050725-4\" src=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-4-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-4-300x282.jpg 300w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-4-1024x963.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-4.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought this kit from the back of CAR magazine. It<br \/>\nconsists of two mounting plates, hubs and outer<br \/>\nwheel  bearings. The plates get bolted to the stub axles with<br \/>\nM10 sunken head capscrews, and the calipers (from a Golf 1 \/ Fox)<br \/>\nbolt to the plates with their  standard bolts. It uses a standard<br \/>\nbeetle bearing and seal on the inside of  the hub, and a special<br \/>\nbearing on the outside. I havn&#8217;t figured out how the  wheel nuts<br \/>\nor studs will work yet.<\/p>\n<p>The disks are vented Golf 1 disks from Goldwagen. Doesn&#8217;t look as<br \/>\nif the vented disks play well with new brake shoes &#8212; not enough space.<br \/>\nAre there thinner shoes for vented disks? I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I will need to add 5 to 4 bolt convertors on the back, otherwise<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have two wheels with four bolts in front and two wheels<br \/>\nwith five bolts at the back.<\/p>\n<p>They also tell me I  must use a Golf 2 master cylinder &#8212; work in progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98\" title=\"20050725-5\" src=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-5-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-5-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-5-1024x969.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-5.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99\" title=\"20050725-6\" src=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-6-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-6-274x300.jpg 274w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-6-935x1024.jpg 935w, http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/20050725-6.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this kit from the back of CAR magazine. It consists of two mounting plates, hubs and outer wheel bearings. The plates get bolted to the stub axles with M10 sunken head capscrews, and the calipers (from a Golf &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/?p=96\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}