In between Time....

Some of the parts have come in and I've been able to get going on the rear brakes only to find that they were not assembled correctly the last time they were worked on and that the drivers side rear wheel cylinder was frozen and leaky.  Bill bought new wheel cylinders and brake shoes but now I'm waiting on a replacement spring (The drivers side rear wheel was lacking a spring on the auto adjust mechanism).  

I also fixed a couple of other things while I was waiting for the parts to come, the clutch reservoir container was hanging loose in the engine compartment and the turn signal would not turn off consistently.  The clutch reservoir needed a way to attach it to the clutch master cylinder mount and the turn signal was off because the steering wheel was mounted with the tab at the 6 O'Clock  position rather than 9 o'clock  where it's half way between the two release levers.

This is just a picture of the new brake flex lines we installed for each wheel

This is the wheel that's missing the adjusting mechanism spring, doubt that worked properly especially with all the brake fluid on the brake shoes. 

Picture showing the position of the turn signal release 'piece', you can see the 'V' on the steering column and it should be pointing at the 9 o'clock position between the two little release levers seen at the far right.  On an E Type this piece is held by a couple of screws and can be adjusted, on this car the piece is welded to the column and the whole front end has to be adjusted by sliding the rack over as far as possible and then adjusting the tie rods to get it centered.

The wheelless 'Stagnator', didn't expect it would be sitting here like this for so long but seems pretty secure.

The passenger side wheel is done with the new shoes and wheel cylinder, the drivers side will be waiting for the spring before we can fully reassemble.  One issue I ran into replacing the wheel cylinders was that the new ones had a slightly different 'receptacle/port' for the brake lines and I couldn't get the brake line fitting to thread on to the wheel cylinder.  At first I thought that the new wheel cylinder might be metric, but no, I could thread a 7/16" bolt into it and the tap fit fine, closer inspection of the brake line revealed that it had been over tightened at some point and ballooned the end so that it wouldn't fit into the male fitting.  A few minutes with a file carefully trimming the flared portion allowed me to get it threaded into the wheel cylinder.  I was relieved that we didn't have to try to find someone to make new lines for us! 

Tomorrow I will balance the two wheels I have and put them on the front till were ready to bleed the brakes.  We will have new hubs and wheels on the back when the parts arrive in the next week or two.

"That's all folks"

Cheers,

Lynn

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