I'm looking to fit EH brakes to my FC to improve braking and still look period. Also I already have a set of the EH ones.
Apart from changing the brake lines it seems to a be an easy bolt on switch over for the front brakes. However the rear brakes are not so simple.
The FC banjo and brake backing plate has a square bolt pattern and the EH has the top bolt holes wider apart and slightly lower. The photo's below show the difference. I want to keep the FC banjo so that I have the original look and do not have to play around with the leaf spring mounts. I'm assuming the FC rear axles will still fit with EH brakes.
Can I simply weld up the top bolt holes in the EH plates and drill new ones to get the square pattern? Some modification is still needed to the brake backing plate to make it fit.
I'd guess that someone has done this before so I'd welcome any comments or help you can offer.