Levo Gen 2 Shigura Question

[Clustertoad]

I'm switching out the Guides with 200mm discs on my 2020 Turbo Levo Comp to a Sigura setup and have a question about the caliper mount.

I went with the Magura MT7 with 203mm discs and thought I would have to change the adapter (or add a washer) to accommodate the extra 3mm diameter. However when I mounted the caliper on the original 20mm spacer I can still see some pad above the disc. Adding 3mm to the spacer would only make this worse. It would appear that the caliper should come down if anything.

There does seem to be pad contact to the bottom of the outside ring of the disc - another reason to leave it as it is, I guess.

 

[cozzy]

What does the front look like?

 

[Mcharza]

Try to move the top washer under the mounting adapter

 

[VWsurfbum]

There shouldnt be any washers under the caliper, if it does need one it would be a thin 1mm or 1.5mm washer.

 

[Clustertoad]

To be clear, it appears that the caliper is too high, rather than too low, which is the opposite of what you would expect with a larger disc.

 

[RebornRider]

There shouldnt be any washers under the caliper, if it does need one it would be a thin 1mm or 1.5mm washer.

What he said.

 

[Mcharza]

To be clear, it appears that the caliper is too high, rather than too low, which is the opposite of what you would expect with a larger disc.

Agree, so my advice does not apply

 

[Kimmoi]

Why would anyone go shimano levers. They are the worst ones on the market. There is a reason why there are aftermarket internals for those levers.

There is a inconsistent wandering bite point and someone in Russia just brought out a product to fix it...

The magura levers are great. If you can stretch to the full magura set up I'd 100% go for that.

Matter of own preferences. Shimano SLX lever is just awesome. In my opinion Maguras belong to the trash can.
If you wanna ride, not bleed or fix your brakes constantly stick with Shimanos.

 

[cozzy]

Matter of own preferences. Shimano SLX lever is just awesome. In my opinion Maguras belong to the trash can.
If you wanna ride, not bleed or fix your brakes constantly stick with Shimanos.

I agree my mt7 calipers paired with xt levers were the best brakes I've ever owned.
Got sick of the flexy leaky fragile magura levers, they really are garbage.
As for spacing from a 200 to 203mm disk I needed a 1.5mm washer at the front and a 4mm washer at the back. I used the deeper of the 2 conical washers for this.

 

[VWsurfbum]

not bleed or fix your brakes constantly stick with Shimanos.

I dont get this, I've never occoured a problem with Magura's for bleeding? just as easy and the same process as doing shimano's?

 

[RebornRider]

Matter of own preferences. Shimano SLX lever is just awesome. In my opinion Maguras belong to the trash can.
If you wanna ride, not bleed or fix your brakes constantly stick with Shimanos.

I bled my Maguras once when I installed them a year ago. A year and a few thousand miles later there is no sponginess and the bite point has not moved. I've also had a few crashes. The Magura levers still look and work fine.

I have to wonder what you guys are doing wrong that causes your bleeding or parts breakage problems.