Riotwarrior, thanks for the kind words.
Well,here I go again. This is why nothing ever gets done,too much thinking and not enough wrenching,lol. Anyhow,upon further review,the Yamaha dual front caliper set is just not going to work for me. The units themselves are much larger than they look when placed down by the front axles of an Attex. Between this and the fact that I'm still looking at having to install some kind of discs on the sprocket tubes,compounded by need to make some sort of mount to allow the calipers to "float",is well beyond my scope of abilities. I would prefer to use (re-use) existing components wherever possible,for various reasons. I really want to use old Colt front tubes w/ the discs already on them (that I have 2 sets of) and the original calipers from the "trans mounted" system as they do not appear to differ much from the mechanical ones I'm seeing in some of the links in riotwarriors thread http://www.6x6world.com/forums/wante...-calipers.html. Still workin on a camera so I can post some pics. Between the "mounts" and sprocket tubes from old Colts and the calipers,I think I can make something work.
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) been stalled for quite some time now. As previously posted,the OEM Colt stuff is just TOO close to the frame,etc to fit in there and the hydraulic set I mentioned are even larger,presenting even more of a challenge. I even made an attempt at using a band brake set-up,that I was satisfied with and may use on a future build,until the opportunity for things that were pretty much designed and built for this application arose. And,yes,even this is not exactly a "bolt-in" operation.
Why,I'm still not clear on but as I find more things out I will certainly share them here.
. I think I have officially emerged from hibernation now. I've managed to put grease zerks in the lateral pivots (another operation NOT on the original work order,wonder why this takes so long 
Pics would be cool
