Small victories, observations and Mk1 rear disk upgrade q's

[gforbess at attglobal.net (Gordon Forbess)]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:37:05 -0700, T Berk <tberk@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>Well, you have two basic answers;
>
>(1) Right side up but older fashioned design with binding parking brake
>
>  OR
>
>(2) Upside down but later style which doesn't stick (or much).
>
>
>Old style has the benefit of getting bled easily when bolted in place, 
>later style doesn't bind as much but installs on our cars on the 
>opposite side, rending the bleeder valve upside down.
>
>I like #2.
>
>There are other considerations like larger master cylinder to handle the 
>larger brake pistons, there is also the good time to upgrade the OEM 
>rubber lines to braided stainless steel covered Teflon lines, with a 
>cover over the whole, and synthetic 5.1 brake fluid (NOTE: Not DOT 5 
>which is Silicon fluid, but the 'works with all type fluid' DOT 5.1.)
>
>m'kay? What else folks?

#1 requires a bit of clearance grinding on the rear beam gussets, but
not much.  Does #2 also?  Just curious.

In addition to the master/booster/prop valves and parking brake
cables, I had to buy and bend one hard line (driver front) because the
original was a bit too short.  The other three lines worked with the
help of a cheap brake line bender tool from a FLAPS.

Gordon

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