bigpig
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| posted on 13/12/09 at 12:29 PM |
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Question for AdrianH on brake setup
Hi,
I saw your earlier postings on brakes, how did you get around the problem with your IVA brake balance failures?
I know you can't use a propotioning valve now, did you use smaller rear drum slaves or something?
I'm using Sierra 2.0 drums rear.
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jabs
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| posted on 13/12/09 at 12:50 PM |
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This from another well known forum
Front are Sierra disks from 1.8 CVH and rear are 9 inch drums again from same car.
Only change after first fail was to reduce the rear cylinder from 22.22mm bore to 19.05 mm bore. Escort cylinders I believe.
I have no numbers from the test, can only hope they manage to send them on I would be interested.
I did ask and was told it takes 180NM foot pressure on the pedal to lock the fronts up, thats just over 18 Kg so it does not take a lot to stop the
car.
[Edited on 13/12/09 by jabs]
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bigpig
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| posted on 13/12/09 at 01:15 PM |
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Thanks, I've had a quick look on fleabay. There are a few "escort rear slaves" (try searching for that on google  ) on there. They
look different to the sierra ones in that they only have a rubber boot on one side. I assume that is just their design rather than them only pushing
on one shoe ?
On a bit of further investigation (on the other popular forum) the part number seems to be Brake Engineering WC4918/Motaquip VWC345 which
Ford Granada 2 75->77 & ESCORT 1.3 & 1.4 ESTATE, 1.6, 1.8, 1.8D 90-ON, ORION 1.8D, GLX, GHIA, S, EXC ABS 90-ON.
[Edited on 13/12/09 by bigpig]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/12/09 at 02:56 PM |
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Industry standard correct term is Wheel cylinders
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bigpig
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| posted on 13/12/09 at 09:28 PM |
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I managed to get some 19mm wheel cylinders in the end from the local Parkers. Not as cheap as fleabay but only a couple of quid difference and much
more convenient.
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