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« Reply #4605 on: April 05, 2012, 10:17:00 PM » |
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Quiet day at the workshop today. Loony welded the box section mount to the chassis then I cut the pedal & we welded in a 20mm extension. That brings the pedal ratio up to a true 6:1, (210mm measured from the centre of the pivot hole to the centre of the pad hole), & 35mm to the centre of the drop arm below the pedal. The re-shaped pedal's got a proper comedy stance now -completely vertical from the floor with the rubber pad angled to match the throttle. You have to lift your foot way up in the air now to apply the brakes, but we've got a whopping 200mm between the pedal pad & the floor. Kev later pointed out that most cars have the brake pedal higher than the throttle. I wasn't convinced till I checked my Fiesta commuter car -it is indeed a good 50mm higher.
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« Reply #4606 on: April 08, 2012, 03:10:19 PM » |
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any more news
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« Reply #4607 on: April 08, 2012, 05:51:51 PM » |
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Not today Terry. I had other stuff to do after work yesterday & Loony wanted to keep the workshop shut today to keep the neighbours happy. There's only one house, but it's right next to the 'shop & they must get fed up with vehicles coming & going all the time & constant hammering & angle grinding. Lots of dog walkers & families out walking, going past the front of the roller door too. So as it's a Bank Holiday weekend, we all took a day off.
Business as usual tomorrow though, (Easter Monday). Kev's not been well, but is hopefully coming up again tomorrow to supervise the final bleeding & testing of the brakes. We can't really do much more with the set-up we've got now, so just got to pray it does the job. The test's booked for a couple of days time.
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« Reply #4608 on: April 09, 2012, 08:12:52 PM » |
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One last visit to the 'shop from Kev today. I trimmed the pedal pushrod a tad to give a little freeplay at the pedal & added another clip to the brake lines under the chassis. Then we bled the brakes one last time. Much better. Not perfect, but as good as they're ever going to get.
A tweak of the carb to richen the mixture & drop the tickover slightly, plus extending the brake light switch wires to fit the new cylinder, & we were done for the day. Thanks for all your help Kev.
After work tomorrow I've got to make a clamp to hold the fluid reservoir hoses into the master cylinder as they have a tendency to weep, then put the under-dash panels & floor panel back down.
All we can do now is hope.
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« Reply #4609 on: April 09, 2012, 09:06:41 PM » |
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fingers are allready crossed here..
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LIVE FAST and DIE YOUNG,, past 50 AND STILL HERE NOW. WAITING. FOR. THE. GRIM. REAPER
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« Reply #4610 on: April 09, 2012, 09:49:04 PM » |
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good luck andy,you wont need it this time the'll pass it, dont know how you kept going on it, it mite have had a few custom hammer dents if i was ever in this situation, but with years of work and money in the pop not to mention 00000s of man hours you did the right thing, shel be leagle in know time  |
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« Reply #4611 on: April 09, 2012, 10:26:28 PM » |
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I'm not going to jinx things by speculating on whether we'll pass or not!
Pass & we continue on the journey.
Fail & it's up for sale cos I really can't face re-building it for the BIVA test.
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« Reply #4612 on: April 09, 2012, 10:28:01 PM » |
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its gonna pass then cozz you aint selling it its against manky monkey motors law
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« Reply #4613 on: April 09, 2012, 10:31:16 PM » |
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 Ssshh! Don't jinx it!
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« Reply #4614 on: April 09, 2012, 10:57:50 PM » |
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that law applyes to you aswell me spanners........... some of the things you read on here 6/7yr old talk. we need an age thread, so you know how to make replies . i dont know wheather to use education talk(my hardedst one) me rassclooottt talk (white afro carribien).text talk (shorthand)  |
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« Reply #4615 on: April 10, 2012, 08:01:24 AM » |
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I've been looking at it re BIVA Andy most of the stuff is alreay covered .Change of steering column ,door handles ,and some other stuff plus some filing (and you LOVE filing! ) and it'll be good to go. Fingers crossed I'm jumping the gun, see you shortly.. |
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« Reply #4616 on: April 10, 2012, 08:03:41 AM » |
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I hope all goes well for you Andy and for your truck.
And for Mr Spanners, I'm with one arm bandit
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and
if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #4617 on: April 10, 2012, 09:35:00 AM » |
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so has it got good brakes.
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« Reply #4618 on: April 10, 2012, 02:43:23 PM » |
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Mr Bandit - anything you like as long as it's not txt spk!
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« Reply #4619 on: April 10, 2012, 03:00:55 PM » |
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so has it got good brakes.
Yup, pedal pad 190mm from floor, 70mm travel to fully on, so bags of reserve travel .Front coming on before rear as required, and pedal positively dropping as servo kicks in when engine starts. All the signs are good but the testing of the brakes is done, front with servo, front without servo, rear with servo ,rear without servo. Each is tested with a pressure pad between pedal and foot and full working curve is calculated based on actual weight and efficiency at 5 different points. Finally a visual test is done to ensure front locks before reas in real world conditions. We can't say for definite they will meet the test criteria but they ARE as good as that set up will ever be. |
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