If I understand you correctly, you have moved the rotor mounting out 5/16" but the caliper mounting is the same? If you add 5/16" to the caliper. Will the piston have enough throw to make up the extra distance, particularly when pads get thin? Try to find a rotor that is 5/16" deeper (maybe hard to find) but some sites give rotor dimensions. What is the reason for the bearing spacer again? Sorry just lazy and don't want to go back and read everything.Hit a technical challenge that needs solving and hoping for your input before I cut my brand new calipers in half. When we added the 5/16" spacers to the wheel bearings (see pics on page 4 of this thread) it pushed the rotors outward by the same distance....now when we tried to install the caliper with pads installed they wouldn't fit because the caliper doesn't have enough reach for the pads to slide in....after not sleeping for thinking about it the other night I've reached what I think is the most reasonable solution...to cut the calipers in half longitudinally and weld them back together 5/16" wider....Anyone have another solution? Didn't foresee this obstacle because for some reason I was thinking that the front brakes on the tj were like a chev truck with a bolt on caliper bracket that we just needed to add 5/16" washers to....anyway sorry for the long winded update.
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edit: Brakeperformance.com gives rotor dimensions. @mrblaine might have ran into some of these issues in the past and be able to give you some options?
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