Another body off!

[mrzigazaga]

Says "Private" on the vid mate...You need to publish it to the public...

[B@man]

Cheers Mark should be OK now.

[B@man]

Door gap much better



And potentially I now have brakes

[350zwelgje]

Interesting. Just have one brake line for the front brakes.
This single line is splitted from the master going to both front brakes....
Always thought that was the standard setup.
Are both lines connected directly to each individual front brake/caliper on your wedge?
The connection pointing down on the master on my wedge is blocked with just a bolt

Rob

[B@man]

350zwelgje said:

Are both lines connected directly to each individual front brake/caliper on your wedge?

Rob

Hi Rob,

Yes both front calipers are fed direct from the master cyl, I just replumbed it how it was but with a bit more care.
Having a T further down the line shouldn't make much difference, this style of master just has the T built in !

[adam quantrill]

Having the T is not a standard setup - sounds like in the past someone has put on a Cortina MK3 cylinder which has two lines, and added the T. Then later the 3-line master was put back on.

I have been looking into masters (see other thread) and I wonder if we can use Sierra or P100 ones which have 3 lines and superficially look similar. Sorry for going off-topic even more!

[B@man]

I think the Sierra ones have a wider stud pattern ?

[adam quantrill]

Cheers yeah problem solved as I have found cortina style ones for around £50.

[matt-man]

Just a thought for you ..after i put my body back on, I really struggled to get brake pressure and turns out the seals in the brake master cylinder died as I didn't seal them off..didn't realise I needed to!

Anyhow...looks like you were more organised than I was with my team! How heavy are those bodies?!

[B@man]

I think my master cylinder has survived, but I did plug the outlets to keep the brake fluid in. Got the brakes bled tonight and considering all of the pipework is new cupronickel which from experience is a tt to bleed as air bubbles stick to the inside of the pipe
pipe. That eazy bleed was £20 well spent!

Yeah half the weight of the car must be in the body, my dad was somewhat apprehensive of the method but it worked well once the muscle had been distributed evenly (ish).

Edited by B@man on Wednesday 17th June 07:59

[B@man]

Postman (& credit card) taking a bashing now, this lot arrived over the course of the week



Radiator ready to go back in, I'm routing the oil lines around the offside of the rad rather than half way around the car.



PAS pump reservoir is now where the oil stat was so the stat is going somewhere here...

[mrzigazaga]

B@man said:

Hi mate..Have you removed some of the bodywork near the manifolds?..Looks like someone has..Just looks too much space for a Wedge..

[B@man]

Hi Mark, not sure on that, all I've done is repair the cracks in the body beside the manifolds, the rest as far as I know is as TVR intended, space is F'tight for the rearmost pots!

[GV]

Would love to know how effective the PAS is as an alternative to the belt driven SD1 type.

[Wedg1e]

GV said:

Would love to know how effective the PAS is as an alternative to the belt driven SD1 type.

I always feel my (SD1 pump/Cortina rack) PAS is a bit heavy when parking but I wouldn't want it any lighter at speed!

[Campbell]

B@man where did you get the connections to the oil cooler, the straight and 90 elbow, im looking to replace mine.

Cheers

Cambelt

[B@man]

Hi Cambelt,

The oil cooler fittings are available from Think Automotive and Merlin Motorsport, I used Merlin as they it came out a bit cheaper, although some of their pictures are not quite right so having the Think Auto catalogue open for cross reference is handy.

The Hose is 5/8" ID and the Cooler threads are 5/8 BSP

[Wedg1e]

B@man said:

Does the lower rad connection come out 'straight' or does it have the 90 degree elbow ? Can't see from this side

[mrzigazaga]

Wedg1e said:

Does the lower rad connection come out 'straight' or does it have the 90 degree elbow ? Can't see from this side

Looks like a classic non-AC range rover rad so i reckon yes...Ziga

[B@man]

Hi Ian,

I'm fairly sure it's got a right angle bend on it, I'll confirm later as I have a couple of days of to work on the wedge.