Re: Flick the Hillclimb Beast.
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 10:45 pm
So Christmas and new years is the time around here for building new stuff, and today I finally have a finished Hydraulic handbrake (well kinda more on that later).
The plan for a long time has been to put some 4 pot wilwoods on the rear of Flick to help (groan!! goes the wife) flick the rear of the car out under braking making it easier and faster on the loose stuff.
I started with a pre-fabricated hydro handbrake unit and cut it up into bits to use the master cylinder bracket and a side of the main bracket for support.
Well this was working really nicely until i tried to put the seat back in.
Interference between my nice new handbrake bracket that I had spent four days on and the seat meant that I couldn't even bolt it in. Sigh.. redesign time.
So off came the seat from the sliding base and that got bolted in so I knew down to the millimeter what i had to miss.
Luckily that worked! another couple of days rebuilding the brackets from scratch then resulted in a happy coincidence the hydraulic handbrake now fits in the same hole as the old cable handbrake!!
Last night and today was spent running new hard brake lines from the master to the tee piece above the engine mount. the reason? well also in the mix is a lever proportional valve for when the Wilwoods do get on the rear. so it all got plumbed up inline at the same time.. ( why do the job twice?!?!)
For the shit's and giggle's
So the reason why it's a kinda done..
After bleeding up the brakes, we found a small problem with the hydraulic master cylinder where when you pull slowly on the handbrake, it's forcing the brake fluid back to the brake master cylinder in the front, instead of the rear wheels. It's an old but new master that has been sitting for a while, so it will get rebuild or replaced at some point soon.
The plan for a long time has been to put some 4 pot wilwoods on the rear of Flick to help (groan!! goes the wife) flick the rear of the car out under braking making it easier and faster on the loose stuff.
I started with a pre-fabricated hydro handbrake unit and cut it up into bits to use the master cylinder bracket and a side of the main bracket for support.
Well this was working really nicely until i tried to put the seat back in.
Interference between my nice new handbrake bracket that I had spent four days on and the seat meant that I couldn't even bolt it in. Sigh.. redesign time.
So off came the seat from the sliding base and that got bolted in so I knew down to the millimeter what i had to miss.
Luckily that worked! another couple of days rebuilding the brackets from scratch then resulted in a happy coincidence the hydraulic handbrake now fits in the same hole as the old cable handbrake!!
Last night and today was spent running new hard brake lines from the master to the tee piece above the engine mount. the reason? well also in the mix is a lever proportional valve for when the Wilwoods do get on the rear. so it all got plumbed up inline at the same time.. ( why do the job twice?!?!)
For the shit's and giggle's
So the reason why it's a kinda done..
After bleeding up the brakes, we found a small problem with the hydraulic master cylinder where when you pull slowly on the handbrake, it's forcing the brake fluid back to the brake master cylinder in the front, instead of the rear wheels. It's an old but new master that has been sitting for a while, so it will get rebuild or replaced at some point soon.