I am in the final stages of reassembly of my rebuilt 91 XV1. (Piccies soon). I notice that the front brake callipers don't align with the rotors well. The join between the two half blocks of each calliper which I'm assuming is the centre of the calliper is about 1mm too far inwards towards the wheel on the RHS and the LHS is about 2mm too for in. In fact on the LH calliper the centre of the calliper aligns with the inside surface of the rotor rather than the middle of it.
Obviously I need to space the callipers further away from the wheel which means that I can't use calliper mounting shims. Do I just use washers of the appropriate thickness to space the bottom of the forks slightly further apart from each other? If so I presume the RHS washer would go between the fork and the RH Collar and the LH washer would go between the fork and the speedo pickup unit?
Advice appreciated.
Dave.