Vt brake upgrade into an early girl

[vlad01]

Just a tip, I found every single left hand VT to VZ caliper I could get my hands on are stuffed from the seal groove being rotted out from what I assume are from lack of proper service, even at the dealers. The left is the furthest from the ABS unit on the front, so it makes sense for it to have the most stagnant fluid. Luckily they make brand new ones now.


I'd spent many 100s on used calipers hoping just one left would be ok, nearly all the right ones were ok, just all the left ones were stuffed from pitting in the seal groove. All that could have paid for the new calipers and saved a ton of time and frustration. I didn't even know you could get new ones until Hoppers told me, then I searched on ebay and sure enough there are plenty of new ones now, it must have just come about during the end of covid when I was trying to put something together becasue I recall not even being able to find seal kits and pistons for them during that time, let alone whole new calipers.


I think the price is around 250 each for the DBA units, so cheaper than what they charge for a reco unit now, I think there are even cheaper china clones around, but I'd stick to a known standard of quality and certification, they are brakes after all.

[Wade]

Yeah well, need to toss up if I’m just replacing the master cylinder that’s on it or still pushing forward with the vt brakes. I don’t think there’ll be much improvement just doing the master cylinder

[Wade]

This car never had an a/c belt on it. So I chucked one on and noticed the nut on the front of the compressor was loose. Then seen the plug for the pressure switch wasn’t plugged in. Found this jammed in there

[Wade]

Going over wiring and ripping out a lot of shit. Like look at that amp b+ wire lol. Don’t no what that was powering. Then looking around at any wiring that don’t look stock, and traced some wires back under the fuse box. That’s some kinda fuckery right there