Easter Weekend, and the plan was for a full 4 days on Isobel. But…. Scuppered by the weather again, wasn’t too bad but damp, windy and chilly. So sat indoors Friday and most of Saturday, working on another little project, nothing to do with Isobel, but exciting nevertheless, more news on that when the time is right, ay GV :-).
Anyway, back on topic. This will be a fairly short one. Sometime ago I fitted the brake pipes to each of the 4 wheels, and more recently fitted the pedals, including Brake and Clutch with new master cylinders and for the clutch a new slave cylinder.
So, its time to start mopping up some of the jobs that have been playing on my mind for some time.
So started connecting the clutch master cylinder to the salve, this required a small bracket being attached to the bulkhead, and a flexible pipe from the bracket down to the slave cylinder.
The bracket was pop riveted to the bulkhead.
Then gently bent (using round pipes of various diameter) the copper pipe from the bracket to the Front port on the Master Cylinder.
This will carry, hopefully, brake fluid to the clutch.
Then onto the Brake pipe from the master cylinder to the fluid reservoir. I kept all the old pipes, so used them as a pattern. I checked online for the correct routing, and this seems the best, most common, and in any case, I had already started bending the pipe’s a while ago.
Now the observant among you, will notice this pipe goes to the front port as well!
This had me stumped at first, as I assumed it would be the same for both cylinders, BUT, its not. The Clutch cylinder is a AC type, the Brake is a CB type, which is more original, but an older design.
Anyway, I am pretty sure its right.
Fast forward, I thought I took more pictures, but seems not.
In this picture, is also the pipe from the clutch cylinder to the reservoir tank, and also the brake pipe that goes down to the 4 way connector located on the chassis. This was added when I did all the pipes.
I think it looks pretty good, all the pipes have nice bends, they are out of the way, and “think” attached properly.
Next part on the brakes of course will be the brake pads and new brake drums, but dont plan on doing that until later, and as such cannot start adding fluid just yet. That also poses me the next big challenge with all this. Setting it all up, and then of course bleeding the brakes, which by all accounts is a right dog to do, especially with the CB type brake master cylinder. Will worry about that when Isobel can actually move under her own steam.
And that, leads nicely onto the next chapter in this saga.
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