[Shotimes] bias valve plugs

[Bruce Malachuk]

Funny I have been under my car for the last 4 days with a sawzall doing up
the rear suspension, dropping the fuel tank (damn SFC's and custom catback
in the way) and I decided to finally take a die grinder to that flap of
metal there and get rid of it. Shaved another 3-4 OZ off my car :-) 


Bruce J Malachuk

*	94 Opal Frost MTX 
*	93 Emerald Green MTX 
*	93 Black ATX - parts 
*	95 Silver Frost ATX SE - SLO 


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 1:45 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] bias valve plugs

Well, as is tradition with this car, I broke something.  I broke the hard
line right before the rubber line on the drivers rear.  Turns out not even
the dealer stocks replacemants.  They must be custom bent.  I couldn't find
a tubing bender that would work with 3/16"
tubing, so I'll take the piece to a brake shop and have them bend one up.

I did get the plugs in though.  I used a pair of bolt cutters to cut the
piece that goes through the spring and connects to the suspension arm, then
slid all that out.  I just forced the flap thing up into the square hole
above it and out of the way.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio
 
   -'95 White MTX
      '96 Brake Upgrade
      Eibachs (front)
 
"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan



shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 10/22/2004 04:57:08 PM:

> The flap over the valves has a tiny nut on it. It's easier if you take
that
> off, and leave it off. On this car, even after PB Blaster, I couldn't
get it
> off, so I just wrestled it to each side to get the valves out. I left
the
> rest of the hardware off, though.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] bias valve plugs
> 
> 
> I took off all the hardware I could.  The flap that covers the valves 
> is the trickiest part.  I pried it slightly back and rotated up and 
> out of the way.  There might be a way to remove it completely since 
> the stud looks threaded but I just let it be.
> 
> Just remember that once the valve comes out, brake fluid will come out
too
> no matter how fast you are.  After you install the plugs, you will 
> have
to
> bleed the rear brakes.  Might be a good time to flush the lines too if
you
> haven't done that.
> --
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
> 
> On Fri, October 22, 2004 1:50 pm, Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com said:
> > I'm hopefully going to work on my brakes this weekend.  One of the 
> > things I'll be doing is putting the plugs in the rear bias valve.  
> > How straight forward is this?  Just replace the valves with the 
> > plugs?  I seem to remember someone asking about the little arm 
> > that's on the valve.  Does that need to be secured in a certain 
> > position, or does it not matter?  Anything to watch out for?
> >
> >
> > Mike Wojton
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