(02/12/2024)
I made some progress this weekend on the brake pivot. I machined out the actual pivot piece from aluminum once I was (fairly) confident that the plastic mock up was right.
This was a chunk of 6161 cut off from eBay to turn into what we see in red:
Cutting that down:
And now machine to match…
Next was a test fit in the car before I started making the hinge part out of plastic:
The plastic part seems fairly straight forward, I’m using two of the bolts for the pedal box to sandwich it all together:
As this is a test I wanted to get fluid in the system. Not a bad flare for the first time on Nickle-Copper lines for me.
Everything in place, fluid is in and it works! It looks like I have a rubber line on the front passenger that may be collapsed, but those are original lines from 38 years ago, so worth a change anyway.
I will eventually have this proportioning valve for the rear brakes and the spacing looks nearly perfect if I mount it here.
Lastly I have the rubber line off the side I think is bad, I was able to push back the cylinder (good sign) and new rubber lines will be here later this week:
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