JC
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| posted on 10/1/13 at 07:06 PM |
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Cortina calipers to flexi question
Hi all, I've been trawling through the threads on here to find the best way of routing my flexi pipes. There is mention on one of the threads
that, using M16 (standard cortina?) calipers, you need a piece of fixed pipe between the calipers and the flexi.
Firstly, is this correct and can anyone provide a picture please?
Secondly (Russbosst?) is there a fitting that will overcome this need?
Thank you all once again!!
JC
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big_wasa
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| posted on 10/1/13 at 07:44 PM |
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The cortina flexi didnt atach directly to the caliper. It was mounted on a bracket on the caliper mounting bolts then a short copper pipe runs to the
caliper.
The M16 wasnt designed to use a Banjo style hose as the caliper doent have a machined face. Many have and got away with it as the copper washers
deformed to fit, many have also found they leak. There are other ways to do it but the caliper union points straight up.
Not mine but ive done mine the same and it just copies how ford did it.
And how it was done on the escort/capri with the same caliper.
For a flexi direct to caliper you could use somthing like this.
[Edited on 10/1/13 by big_wasa]
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JC
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| posted on 10/1/13 at 09:10 PM |
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Awesome, thanks for that! Can you get the brackets from anywhere or is it a self-fab job?
Although the little doo-hickey at the bottom looks just the job, 2 of those please Russ?
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UncleFista
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 01:46 PM |
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This is the best picture I have of mine, flexi to the bracket, then kunifer to the caliper.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 11/1/13 at 02:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JC
Awesome, thanks for that! Can you get the brackets from anywhere or is it a self-fab job?
Although the little doo-hickey at the bottom looks just the job, 2 of those please Russ?
The originals are rare now an rusted badly, you can easily make copy's from a piece of inch angle with a hacksaw and drill
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russbost
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| posted on 12/1/13 at 02:33 PM |
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Sorry, was away skiing for a week, & rubbish internet access!
Just to add an extra dimension Cortina calipers could be either 3/8 x 24 JIC or m10 x 1.0, the latter is more likely (anything after around '84
should be metric).
Looking at the pics I would say that a standard male swivel fitting would do the job unless you were running very small wheels (anyone know what size
the wheels pictured are?). The first approx 45mm of the fitting (inc thread) is rigid, but once onto the flexy section it will bend happily on a 25mm
radius so could easily be routed to give clearance without any "clever" additional pipes or gubbins to complicate things & add expense
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JC
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| posted on 12/1/13 at 02:52 PM |
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Thanks for that Russ, I'll check my calipers. I bought them reconditioned so have no idea which they are!!!
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