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Would it be possible to swap a front brake plate/hub into a rear wheel?
For instance, use a front drum brake assembly in a rear drum brake wheel?
For instance, use a front drum brake assembly in a rear drum brake wheel?
To use a rear drum wheel on the front.Most rears have trailing shoes and fronts have leading shoes because the servo affect is greater with leading shoes, diameters of the hub might be different too; but in principle there’s no reason with a bit of engineering you couldn’t do that. However the rears fitted to most Hondas were perfectly adequate for their intended use; and used hard could lock up the back wheel quite easily.
A well set up twin leading shoe brake could also outperform the later disc brakes too.
Why do you want to fit TLS to a rear wheel?
Nigel
There's a photo I found on the below forum after doing some searching. It appears this bike retained the entire rear wheel assembly, including the backing plate. I just thought using a front brake backing plate would save me the trouble of fabricating a mount for the cable. I'd like to do it with a 16" comstar like this. I just like the idea of having matching 16" wheels. I suppose I could use the rear plate, mount a front brake arm for use with a cable, and then fab up a mount to hold the cable end.Well you could, but the hub from a rear wheel has a sprocket on it, and fitting a rear brake carrier to a front wheel means reversing the direction of rotation so now your trailing shoes are leading shoes. Then the diameter of the drum will be larger than your shoes. You’re continually chasing one problem after another. You have an Idea if this will work or you wouldn’t have posed this question. Care to share your idea?
Nigel.