Better front brake
- Thread starter thony
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So, I got the Scram 440 caliper. Will get it fit post Ramadan as my garage is closed till then.
But it seems a direct fit. The caliper is a 30-32 mm as compared to our stock 26mm.
As Sam already mentioned in another post, the braking on the scram 440 was better and I am hoping it will make things better on the 411 as well, combined with my radial brake levers.
But it seems a direct fit. The caliper is a 30-32 mm as compared to our stock 26mm.
As Sam already mentioned in another post, the braking on the scram 440 was better and I am hoping it will make things better on the 411 as well, combined with my radial brake levers.
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did you change the disc as well?
Nope. The scram 440 also comes with a 300mm disc like the Himalayan. So I plan to first check the new caliper with the stock himalayan disc.
I do have a 310 mm disc with me that matches the disc mounts of Himalayan 411, but would need to create a mounting bracket for the caliper. So not planning to use that yet. Anyway it might be an overkill for the Himalayan.
Yes I recall. That is the first post from Google search that lead me to the old forum, and introduced me to Himalayan Tools.
Yeah, that sucks! I wonder if they do this on purpose or if they just don't care. I see this with so many different parts that almost fit but not quite. They should learn from BMW which had a policy (in the past) where you could exchange 90% or parts between models.
So, I did manage to Install the 440 unit on himalayan.
I got the 440 caliper bracket mounting holes filled up with welding.
Then redrilled them to match the hole and threading of the stock caliper bracket.
Did it's job well, now I can swap back to stock if I ever need and didn't have to spend much on a custom mounting bracket.
Braking is definitely much much better. Will see if I can grab a video this weekend.
Fitted a Brembo (28mm pistons) caliper from a Gilera GP800 ( also fitted to Aprilia SRV850 and probably other Piaggio offerings) as well as certain HD models. Significant improvement over stock. I use Vesrah HH sintered pads and a nearly new disc. No need to change the master cylinder ( unless you want to!) You need to reuse the Himmie caliper bracket and source an M10 x 1.0 banjo bolt. After that it's plain sailing ( if you have a vacuum pump for bleeding the system). The caliper makes quite a difference over stock. I recommend this mod to all, it's the caliper that should have been fitted in the first place.
Folks, I fitted a Brembo 28mm caliper as well. When I got it, it didn't have this anti rattle spring in it, so I took the one from the original caliper and installed it. I recently noticed the bike squealing at low speed and when pushing it around. I jacked up the front, and sure enough the pads were dragging. First I thought the caliper wasn't free to slide, but it was fine. Then I noticed this clip looked like it was fouling the pistons (it may not when compressed by the pads), but anyway I removed it, and it's perfect now, so it was definitely not allowing free floating of the pads. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?
