Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!
Aim: CB and CD Accords came with a wierd front brake setup where the hub sits in front of the rotor. This makes changing or upgrading the rotors difficult and time consuming. This DIY will demonstrate how to swap the hub over rotor setup to a more common rotor over hub using all OEM parts on a 92 CB Accord. We will also upgrade the rotors and calipers to 282mm prelude items.
There are alot of variations to this using original sized rotors or just upgrading your rotors without the ROH conversion so if you have any questions just ask and I can try and point you in the right direction.
Required: Parts:
- New or re-use CB Accord front wheel bearings. (If re-using your old ones they need to be pressed out from the hub)
- 98 Acura CL 2.3 front wheel hubs (pressed onto bearings)
- 94 Prelude VTIR 282mm front brake rotors
- 23T Prelude caliper brackets
- 97 Prelude calipers/92 Accord wagon calipers with brake pads to match
Steps:
1. Jack up the car safely and remove the front wheels.
2. Remove the axle nut and push the drive shaft back through as far as it will go. You need this clearance to get the bolts off that hold the bearing onto the knuckle.
3. Remove the 12 point bolts holding the bearing to the knuckle from behind the knuckle. You'll probably need to use a ring spanner because its pretty tight in there.
4. Ideally you would now use a slide hammer to get the bearing off the knuckle. It isn't pressed in but it is pretty tight. We just used a big screw driver and bashed it in between to wedge it out. Once loose remove it from the knuckle.
Old vs New bearing pressed into new hub.
5. Fit the new bearing and hub to the knuckle and screw the bolts in from behind the knuckle again. The bearing will be tight again so use the bolts to tighten it in, in a criss-cross pattern.
6. Slide the new rotor on over the hub and tighten the set screws.
Old Vs New
7. Fit the new caliper bracket, pads and caliper.
Finished. (Ignore the writing the calipers are from a BB6 Prelude)
8. Fit the brake line to the new caliper and bleed the system.
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Thanks for the help dave
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