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RE: Master Cylinders

To: "Larry G. Miller" <millerls@classic.msn.com>
Subject: RE: Master Cylinders
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <UPMAIL06.199710202247430271@classic.msn.com>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Larry,
couldn't you look up what size MC the MGB had and go from there?
That size would probably be the best in terms of effort and
travel...provided the distance from brake pedal mounting hole to the hole
where the pedal attaches to the MC is the same on B and Midget (sigh)...

Ulix

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Larry G. Miller wrote:

> Adrian
> 
> My real concern is will the stock master cylinder produce enough pressure for 
> 
> MBG calipers that I am installing.  I know that the stock 3/4 inch bore 
>master 
> cylinder should be replaced by the 7/8 inch bore cylinder when converting 
>disk 
> brakes.
> 
> ----------
> From:         owner-spridgets@autox.team.net on behalf of Adrian
> Sent:         20 October, 1997 3:25 PM
> To:   spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject:      Re: Master Cylinders
> 
> So to all the people concerned with adding later year model safety
> equipment such as dual brake master cylinders:
> 
> Them rubber bumpers are DARN safe!  I bet they'd bolt right on!
> And I may have an extra set!
> 
> hee hee
> 
> adrian
> 
> 75 midget with some darn safe bumpers!
> 
> Lancer7676@aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks Larry for bringing that up.  To extend your question a bit further, 
> is
> > it possible to install the dual brake master cylinder  and brake lines into
> > an earlier Sprite with a single line.  I am thinkinng of my 1967 Sprite.  I
> > am taking her all the way down to the bare bones.  Wondering how much 
> trouble
> > it would be to install the safer dual lines.  And would it fit, as Larry is
> > asking, into the '67 box?
> > 
> > -----David
> >       1967 Sprite (Victoria, aka, Vicky)
> 
> -- 
> __________________________________
> email:  adrian@icx.net
>       adrian@utk.edu
> 
> "How about going back to sleep for
>  a few minutes and forgetting all
>  this nonsense"  -Gregor Samsa
> 
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> 
> 

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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