[Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs

[Bruce Malachuk]

Well if the weather cooperates today I am gonna prolly pull the plugs outta
my 95 SE (since it just sits) and see about having them welded at local shop
here in town where I know the owner.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Fisher" <ianf@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: "'Paul L Fisher'" <sho@paul-fisher.com>; "'Bruce Malachuk'"
<bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>; "'SHOtimes'" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs


> I haven't really looked at mine yet, but isn't what's in there threaded
> just like the bypass plugs?
>
> Ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Paul L Fisher
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: Bruce Malachuk; SHOtimes
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs
>
>
> I don't think I would trust not welding it. The material you will be
> putting on the holes will be taking the few thousand PSI of the brake
> fluid when you slam on the brakes. If there were a catastrophic failure
> of the plug, you will be pumping large amounts of fluid onto the ground.
>
> Paul L Fisher
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
> To: "Midwest SHO Specialists" <SHOtimes@midwestsho.com>; "SHOtimes"
> <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs
>
>
> > well if I had a welder that that would be easy and I wouldn't have
> > asked.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Midwest SHO Specialists" <SHOtimes@midwestsho.com>
> > To: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>; "SHOtimes"
> > <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs
> >
> >
> > > Not to oversimplify things Bruce, but you can remove your current
> > > valves
> > and
> > > weld shut the hole in the end.  That's it. :>)
> > >
> > > Mike Kopstain
> > > Midwest SHO Specialists
> > > 827 North Chestnut Avenue
> > > Arlington Heights, IL 60004
> > > www.MidwestSHO.com
> > > Sales@midwestsho.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
> > > To: "SHOtimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:15 PM
> > > Subject: [Shotimes] Brake Bias Plugs
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've read everything on the shoforum about these, and they sound
> pretty
> > > > simple. Paul Nimz had listed some specs about them " The thread is
> > M16x1.0
> > > and
> > > > you need two Vitron O-rings 3/8" OD x 1/4" ID x 1/16" and I was
> > wondering
> > > if
> > > > anyonecould direct me to finding a local kind of place to get what
>
> > > > I
> > need
> > > to
> > > > make my own? I'd buy some from SHOnut or Midwest SHO, but I wanted
>
> > > > to
> > see
> > > if I
> > > > could make them myself. I can't imagine that they cost more than a
>
> > > > few
> > > bucks
> > > > to make. Like could I go to Home Depot and find something to use,
> > > > or
> > maybe
> > > a
> > > > plumbing supply place? Kinda want to do this for as little as
> possible.
> > > Maybe
> > > > I could make plugs outta some JBweld, though that wouldn't be
> > reversible.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > Bruce
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