Wednesday 15 July 2009

A little bit of brakes....

Yesterday, I took the rear hubs into work and vapour blasted them. I think they've cleaned up pretty well, ignoring my dirty finger prints.


Then I set to work removing the gearbox mount from the sierra cross member. Although I'd ground the rivet heads off, the rivet bodies required drilling through before they would losen and eventually be removed.
I then gave the brake shoe adjusters a going over with a wire brush then a coat of jenolite. I'd not used this Jenolite stuff before but they look cleaner now than when I started.


I'd made few purchases on ebay this week, some of which have started to arrive:
  • 8mm Kunifer to use for fuel pipe
  • some 6mm I/D split conduit for protecting brake pipes
  • mini pipe cutter
  • spiral wrap
  • sticky backed foam to use when mounting the fuel tank
Still on the shopping list is some fuel hose. I've also started to think about a fuel pump and quinton hazel part QFP603 seems to have a varied application and oftens turn up when I'm searching for info. I've also seen recommendations for using the fuel pump from a cavalier SRI which ties in with the QH part number.

Tonight I connected the rear flexi hoses to the rear wheel cylinders via a short piece of copper brake pipe on each side. These were mounted via an aluminium bracket I'd made using metal from the scrap bin at work. The brackets were riveted to the rear hub carriers

I also matched my existing record of snapping two drill bits in one evening!

Sunday 12 July 2009

Brake lines finished




Some sections need to be covered with something such as conduit to protect the pipes in a couple of places just to be on the safe side.

shopping list

I'm going to need some more bits and pieces soon

  • Split conduit and possibly some heat shrink tubing to protect brake pipes in exposed areas
  • Larger diameter conduit to protect the fuel pipes
  • Fuel pipe and fuel hose
  • Sticky back foam padding to go under the fuel tank
  • Aluminium for making the straps to attach and support the fuel tank
I think I'll be spending an hour or two on ebay this afternoon.......

Saturday 11 July 2009

More brakes

Started to mount the brake pipe through the transmission tunnel to the back of the chassis. Mounted the T piece and the switch



The zetec engine's fuel/air inlet is on the right hand side of the engine so I've decided to route the fuel pipe along same side as the brake pipe so the fuel pipe route won't have to switch from one side to the other nearer the front of the car.

The original rivets which hold the gearbox mount to the sierra gearbox mounting have been ground off today but it needs a good thump to separate one piece from the other


Fuel tank ordered from MK on friday

Rear bearing carriers fitted with new wheel bearings during the week