Healing

Getting ready for my 5 lug/4 piston brake swap, but the dust shields on the spindles are completely torn up. Mine are in good shape, but they are of the 4 lug, single piston variety. Will they be too small to fit over the new 4 piston brake rotors?

island-fc

no they are not, i did the swap last week and had to swap the shield too

clokker

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When I swapped I didn't have to touch the dust shields.
This was a 91 NA, maybe other years/models are different.

island-fc

i put the 86 dust shields off the 4 piston calipers onto the 87(when i did the swap), the rotors on the 4 pistons are about 1.1" bigger on the front. on all s4's anyways

Healing

Crap...anyone know where to get new dust shields? I didn't see them listed on Mazdatrix lol...

farberio

iTrader: (7)

You can use the smaller dust shields, i have done it, but they fit just barely.

You can probably get super cheap ones from somebody's parts car, just post a want to buy in the for sale section.

misterstyx69

iTrader: (142)

bend them back,sort of flatten them out..You may have to Split the Rolled up edge in order to do it...You should have Swapped the whole hub/Spindle assembly.That way the dust shield would not have been a factor.

Healing

I do have the whole assembly. But the dust shields on my 4-pot spindles are completely chewed up, so I was really wondering if I should replace them or not.