I am thinking of removing the front half of the right side floor board on my wifes TB. Then I can relocate the the foot brake, so that it is level with the top of the foot peg. Then remove the brake line from the hand lever to the rear brake caliper, and plug the extra hole.
This should do two things 1, Improve front brake feel by removing the rubber line to the rear caliper. 2, Spilt the brakes.
Has anyone else done this? If so how did it work?
Thanks Drew

 

I don't think I would do that . The full floor board will help to keep her foot out of harms way .

The rear caliper is actually two calipers in one . The foot pedal has it's own piston that is separated from the line that goes to the hand brake . If the line is plugged that goes to the calpier from the hand brake the feel at the lever may be rather odd .

The resale value of your quad to may be reduced by these modifications aswell.

I understand your desire to have better braking on your machine (Lord knows it needs it) . But I don't think you are going to get the results you are looking for by doing what you have planned .

 

get a new master cylinder from high performance designs 612 434 9809. i have one of these on my wifes trailblazer and she can now lock up the brakes with just 2 fingers. she would not ride down long hill with the stock setup because it was too hard to pull. i also have this setup on my xplorer. best mod i ever did to my quad.

 

The HPD/Magura master cylinders did work well . Unfortunately they have been discontinued by HPD due to a specification change at the Magura factory. It seems later shipments of mastercylinders did not work as well, leaving a *mushy* feeling at the lever .

 

ScramblerDrew,
Just do what I did and just cut out enough to let the peddle pass by. Check out the new 01's because they have a simular feature.

Rick Ritter,
I guess that I don't understand why you think he will get an odd feel. Don't the split brake line kits do basically the same thing as SramblerDrew wants to do. And who other than Polaris has a ONE LEVER all braking system?
Just thought I would ask!!!!!!!

 

My wife is quite comfortable on her machine, and would be happy with just foot pegs, so she wont feel unconfortable. As far as the twin piston caliper is concerned, that is the problem, when you try to use the foot brake it is in compitition with the hand brake making it useless.
By isolating the foot brake to the rear caliper I will be making it a standard braking system (foot rear, Hand Front).
The only thing that will be modified will be the floor board itself 30.00 $ and the brake lever 18.00$ and the bike can easily be returned to stock in about 1 hour.

To be honest it baffles me that the aftermarket has not offered this as a bolt on. It is so simple, why bother spliting the brakes with 2 hand levers when all other manufactuers are using the hand foot system already!
See Ya Drew

 

if you split the f/r brakes and do not go to a smaller volume front master cylinder the ratio of m/c to brake calipher will be way off and the lever will be hard to pull because stock that m/c works on both front and back caliphers. the smaller the volume of the m/c the easier it is to pull but you must pull it farther.

 

The removal of the rear brake line from the front brake master cyclinder will cause the flow to work faster resulting in more response, the feel of the lever when applying the brake will feel much the same but more responsive to the front.

Later Rictor

 

I have had experiences like motorman says with the brake feel . Still though , it may not be to bad .

Sounds reasonable for parts replacement if it turns out to not be your liking ..... Hmmm , hand me the sawsall , and fire up the mig welder.