Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Omega Nige]

Hi, I'm rebuilding my front calipers on my 3.2 and need to replace the back plate shield. Does anyone know where I can get a pair? Thanks 😊

[Enceladus]

Carried over from the Carlton/Omega A and Senator B. So I suggest that you PM Keith ABS and ask if he can help you out? If nobody on the forum has any.

Do they really need renewing as opposed to re-painting?

[Omega Nige]

Hi, my shields are non existent, nothing to paint! 

[dave the builder]

I assume then you mean FRONT shields then 
 NOT  the REAR back plates (because the rears support the handbrake shoes too )

[ronnyd]

Err.... read the OP Dave. 

[dave the builder]

Err.... read the OP Dave. 

disc back plate
the plate that goes at the back of a disc ,front or rear of the car 

[ronnyd]

Err.... read the OP Dave. 

disc back plate
the plate that goes at the back of a disc ,front or rear of the car 

Sorry Dave, misread your reply. 

[dave the builder]

Err.... read the OP Dave. 

disc back plate
the plate that goes at the back of a disc ,front or rear of the car 

Sorry Dave, misread your reply. 

It's just not clear what the OP wants 

[johnnydog]

Cos he's rebuilding his front calipers, then surely (presumably) he is referring to the back plate on the front hubs - that's how I read it before you lot started throwing spanners in the works!!

[johnnydog]

And no, I don't know a source of any....approx three years ago, the fronts were totally rotten on one of mine. I scoured my local scrap yards and found a decent set on a breaker so just swapped the complete hubs and knuckle. Not as easy these days though - Omegas are now a rarity in my local breakers....

[polilara]

Assuming I  have correct numbers really difficult to find. I remeber some years ago rear plates were available from Germany (someone started re-production of them). Don't remember the name of that company but ordered one rear plate from them. Does anybody know whether they produced also front plates.

[ronnyd]

Cos he's rebuilding his front calipers, then surely (presumably) he is referring to the back plate on the front hubs - that's how I read it before you lot started throwing spanners in the works!!

That's the way i read too Johnnydog. So when i read Dave's post saying about rear brakes, that's when i made my flippant reply. 

[cam.in.head]

seeing as they are only dust shields rather than the rear ones which actually do a job then surely there must be a similar type on something that can be modded to fit (or will fit) the front style is certainly quite conventional .

[dave the builder]

There is no requirement for the front to be there at all for MOT in the UK
probably why no one bothered to re-order or manufacture them.
they would only become an issue if the sharp edge risks damaging something else .
a pair of shallow pie tins with holes in the right place would do the same job (which is not much) IF you felt  the need 
Mmmm....pies 

[Omega Nige]

Hi, thanks for all your comments, yes I am trying to source to the front brake disc shields. I'm the process of taking it all apart, the  nearside has some of the original left so hopefully I will be able to find something similar