Fuselage - Drums to Disc Brake Conversion

[70_NPORT]

If that is the case, Please drive it slowly until you have enough road to get used to the new brakes.

Yup. Definately.

 

[70_NPORT]

With the way the inlet of your booster looks hopefully none of the fluid leaked into the diaphragm

Looks fairly dry in there....didn't find any brake fluid "puddles". If there were I'd definitely pull the thing out and swap it "JUST" for safety sake alone. Is it supposed to be bone Sahara desert dry in there?

 

[70_NPORT]

Is this some sort of adapter? It between the old MC and brake booster. The new MC will fit onto the booster w/ or w/out it.

 

[commando1]

Keeping it or removing it will affect the length of the rod from the booster to the m/c.

Check to see if there is a difference in the depth shown below between the new and old one.
Probably not so I would put it back on if that's the case.

 

[tallhair]

It's to isolate the cast iron M/C and fluid from the tin PBB body and seal

actually just guessing

 

[70_NPORT]

10-4 on both, thx. It's gonna stay. I want everything to continue working the way it was.

 

[70_NPORT]

Keeping it or removing it will affect the length of the rod from the booster to the m/c.

Check to see if there is a difference in the depth shown below between the new and old one.
Probably not so I would put it back on if that's the case.

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spoke too soon....there is a difference in depth between the two.....

 

[tallhair]

Still time to paint that m/c

be careful not to get fluid on it though and use some primer to promote adhesion

 

[70_NPORT]

thx, but why would I paint all over it? ...its beautiful as is.

 

[Slantsix]

After a week its rusted.

 

[saylor]

+1 after a week its rusted.

paint it now, or be rusty

after mine instantly rusted, I rubbed a bunch of oil and brake fluid on it and called it done. its patina now.

 

[70_NPORT]

might there be some sort of sealant? keep the surface from oxidizing. I really don't want to paint it.

 

[saylor]

hey I went out of town for a week,, have you actually turned any wrench yet, or did we make 27 pages with just discussion ?

 

[70_NPORT]

I have power disc brakes up front; few pages back....

 

[saylor]

nice. ok I dunno where you are at with the MC, but if it was like what I was workin with, that's a filter and filter holder. put the holder back in, filter is optional. you may find one at the parts house, dude told me to go get a lawn mower filter and cut it to fit. I have no filter there at present.

 

[70_NPORT]

nice. ok I dunno where you are at with the MC, but if it was like what I was workin with, that's a filter and filter holder. put the holder back in, filter is optional. you may find one at the parts house, dude told me to go get a lawn mower filter and cut it to fit. I have no filter there at present.

This is a filter holder?

 

[saylor]

bro I dunno - if that is a little plastic piece ya i think that is it. ill try to find a pic of what I had goin on.

I went back to my post from 2013 and we collectively at the forum never really answered it

ECI c - body brake kit

mine has no filter in there now. from whatever research I did back then, I decided to punt on it.

 

[70_NPORT]

bro I dunno - if that is a little plastic piece ya i think that is it. ill try to find a pic of what I had goin on.

I went back to my post from 2013 and we collectively at the forum never really answered it

ECI c - body brake kit

mine has no filter in there now. from whatever research I did back then, I decided to punt on it.

ok....looks like the same piece I have in there

 

[commando1]

Not enough difference to matter.
Lookat the depth of the inner hole to the flange surface.
Keep it.

Filter???
What filter?
There's nothing to filter.

 

[Big_John]

That piece is there to allow air to enter the front of the booster when the bellows inside has a vacuum applied to it. The filter keeps the crud out.