I've got all the bits I need EXCEPT the brake cylinder that goes at the wheel rim. I could hack a 2-sided cylinder, but it would be much easier with a single-sided one.
Can anyone suggest an easily available brake cylinder that would do the job?
I want to build one of these beasties:
I've got all the bits I need EXCEPT the brake cylinder that goes at the wheel rim. I could hack a 2-sided cylinder, but it would be much easier
with a single-sided one.
Can anyone suggest an easily available brake cylinder that would do the job?
Use a clutch slave -
ETA -will you not also need a specific 1" CSA piston to give to a direct reading or are you going to use a correction factor?
Which to save to the calculation is a 1.128" bore
[Edited on 6/5/13 by Andy S]
[Edited on 6/5/13 by Andy S]
Mini slave but it an adaptor for the piston.
Classic mini front drum?
MGB clutch slave might be even better + cheaper.
I guess it depends on the pressure rating of the gauge as you want the reading to be to be using a large amount of the scale for best accuracy.
What is the approximate weight of each corner?
What pressure gauge do you have?
Regards
Davie
biggest problem, i found with this type of gauge (i have a comercial one, ) is unless you steel wheels, you end up buggering up the rim
As for the gauge - I'll have to go and dig in my garage shelves - it's there somewhere! It's a calibrated one reading several hundred
psi, so I'm sure the range will be more than sufficient. I'm not bothered about getting an exact measure - as long as I can get a number
off the dial I can compare from one side to the other and get the weights balanced across the car.
I borrowed a professionally-made one of these years ago from Rusty Nuts, and it makes the job really easy. I want to do some work on the front end
over the next year, so I decided to make one for myself.
dave r - I know what you mean - last time I used one of these I put a small block of very hard rubber between the piston and the wheel rim.
Didn't get any damage.
[Edited on 6/5/13 by David Jenkins]
Still have mine if you want to borrow it David
Thinking out the box you could use dial meter type torque wrench instead of a hydraulic load cell.
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You would need 4 though, not cheap
Yep - apart from the slave cylinder, everything will come from the odds and ends lying around my garage, so super-cheap to build! I'm not
looking for high sophistication or excessive complication (or high expense).
I'll take a look at those slave cylinders mentioned above - if I can get one cheap off ebay I'll be on a roll.
[Edited on 7/5/13 by David Jenkins]
Dual cylinder mini brakes use one-sided brake cylinders:
Mini Front Wheel Brake Cylinders LH RH sided pair GWC126 GWC127 for drums | eBay
Land Rover Series 3 Clutch Slave Cylinder 591231 | eBay
Landrover slave
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Dual cylinder mini brakes use one-sided brake cylinders:
Mini Front Wheel Brake Cylinders LH RH sided pair GWC126 GWC127 for drums | eBay
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