Yeh , so how hard would it be ? and does any one know a rough cost ?
thanks allHow hard is it to change drum brakes to disk brakes on a off road motorcycle ?
Depends on what motorcycle and if your talking both front and back brakes. Front disc bakes change- again depending on bike- $100.00 for complete front end of same manufacture from a salvage yard, simplest way. Otherwise you're talking disk wheel, caliper, at least one lower leg to mount caliper, and hydraulic master cylinder- salvage yard parts may be 1/2 hundred- new will be $300.00+. You may find a disk adapter kit that would mount to lower leg- Some Hondas with the brake backing plate link bolted to lower leg upgraded late 70s to disc- the caliper was forward mounted and used the drum brake link bolt as mount- This was using the Honda 750 disc brake assembly on some earlier drums and one setup was for Harley legs-that was about $500.00 for new parts at the time. Dirt bikes rear rarely disc, the newer fronts for 250cc up usually are. Find a blown engine frame of same manufacture as your current dirt bike and get the whole front end- could maybe use a street bike frontend if extended forks are available like from Franks. A bent front end goes real cheap-$20.00- you would be using lower legs and disc assembly withnew extended front to get needed height.How hard is it to change drum brakes to disk brakes on a off road motorcycle ?
Do you have lugs on the forks to bolt the calipers on to?
Will the wheel accept the disk?
Best bet: buy a new front fork assembly with wheel %26amp; brakes,
that will fit the 'head' bearing in your frame.How hard is it to change drum brakes to disk brakes on a off road motorcycle ?
I swapped a Honda XR 250 to an XR 200. It was a simple swap using the upper and lower triple clamps and fork assembly from the 250. The steering stem had to be pressed out of the old clamp (XR 200) and into the XR 250 clamp. Then it was a simple bolt up process. In addition to gaining a disc front brake I gained an inch of travel. I had $300.00 in parts and about an hour of my own labor. Good luck.
