Commando rear brake in Featherbed

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Has anyone installed a Commando rear drum brake in a Featherbed frame? I'm doing a Featherbed special & have a Commando cush drive brake that I'd like to use. I'm wondering if there are some mods that can be made to make it work.
 
Hi bob, if you keep the Cdo brake plate , you will have to change the torque pin , the "square "part that fit into a slug in the swingarm, the cdo one is longer , then both spacers left and right on the spindle are shorter/longer........may be more to come, but it's easy ( I had done it!!).
 
Yes I have been running 850 Commando rear wheel on my Featherbed for 34 years now, easy to convert, I didn't replace the torque pin, I just cut it down to fit the Featherbed swing arm and the axle spacers to make sure the chain runs straight and the wheel don't rub on the swing arm.

Ashley
 
ashman said:
Yes I have been running 850 Commando rear wheel on my Featherbed for 34 years now, easy to convert, I didn't replace the torque pin, I just cut it down to fit the Featherbed swing arm and the axle spacers to make sure the chain runs straight and the wheel don't rub on the swing arm.
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I did the exact same thing. Just take care to cut it very carefully so as not to remove more material than needed to just fit. I seem to recall having to slightly re-orient the alignment, so the cuts maybe were not on the same angle as the original shape? <Ashman, do you recall? It has only been 5 or 6 years for me, but I've forgotten.
 
Thanks for the feedback. That's about what I thought from looking at the fit: shorten the torque pin, lengthen the short fixed spindle on the brake plate side, make spacers to orient chain line, shorten the long spindle to fit, spoke up wheel to center the tire. Anything else I'm missing?
 
grandpaul said:
ashman said:
Yes I have been running 850 Commando rear wheel on my Featherbed for 34 years now, easy to convert, I didn't replace the torque pin, I just cut it down to fit the Featherbed swing arm and the axle spacers to make sure the chain runs straight and the wheel don't rub on the swing arm.
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I did the exact same thing. Just take care to cut it very carefully so as not to remove more material than needed to just fit. I seem to recall having to slightly re-orient the alignment, so the cuts maybe were not on the same angle as the original shape? <Ashman, do you recall? It has only been 5 or 6 years for me, but I've forgotten.
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Paul its been a long time ago for me over 34 years now, to many beers and pot to remember that far back, in them days when I converted my Commando to Featherbed I only had basic tools and very young, but still running the same torque pin and spacers to this day, so I must have done it right, I remember it wasn't that hard of a job to do.

Ashley
 
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