Derek, All,
Brakes:
I rebuilt my clutch master cylinder Saturday evening, and at one point, I
thought, well, how much is a new one anyway?
The answer was $129 in my Moss Catalog.
So I looked in my Racer Wholesale catalog and they had brand-new Tilton
master cylinders for $70. With the reservoir, and misc. bits, it would
come out to about $85.
I was tempted, but then I also wanted to drive my car Sunday, so I just
finished the rebuild.
Tilton is famous for making ultra-lightweight clutches for most every
application in racing, most notably Formula 1.
Their hydraulic plumbing is built to the same dimensions as the old Girling
and Lockheed stuff.
Has anyone tried using any Tilton stuff on their TRs?
Flywheel:
I saw mention of some aluminum flywheels on this thread. Is PAECO in
Alabama the only game in town on this one? Their flywheels are around
$500-$550 bare.
Anyone have a used one they'd care to part with?
-jeffrey
'62 TR4
CT 7486 LO
At 02:53 AM 7/31/00, derek evans wrote:
>hi all,
>
>I'm thinking of replacing the entire braking system on the herald, after all
>some of these parts are 40 years old.
>it occurred to me that with a modified bracket on the firewall i could fit
>two separate master cylinders, one feeding the front brakes, one feeding the
>rear. i would feel a lot safer with some redundancy in the system.
>has anyone tried anything like this on any of the triumphs (or anything for
>that matter)? can anyone see why (apart from originality, too far gone for
>that) this would be a bad idea?
>
>thanks
>
>derek
>1960 herald (happy 40th) (brakes optional extra)
>1965 vitesse (brakes in color coded crates, red for port, green for starb'd)
>1975 series III landrover (enormous power boosted drum brakes, hand brake is
>a fifth drum)
>
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