lozz wrote:Hi there, I'm Laurence, I'm new to the forum
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. I've owned a scimitar fr about 18 months now, and i'm loving it.
Hi!! Good choice, I love Scimitars too! My first car was a GTE SE5 -69 so I have lots of good memories from this car!
I'd love to know more about the disc conversion, with the dimensions of that type of disc and caliper set up, does it mean that the bearing retainer/caliper mount can be made of a flat peice of metal? How is the conversion going now.
I haven't made the brackets yet, just a drawing. Since one week ago I have disassembled the halfshafts from the rear axle and I will bring one of them to my workplace today and press the hub off, then I will plot the drawing and mount a "paper bracket" just to see that the drawing is OK.
So maybe next week I will start to cut the brackets, either with laser or a saw.
Here is a draft to a bracket-drawing, may be modified after some testing:
I think, but I'm not 100% sure yet that a flat piece of 8mm metal will be OK. I recognixed that I can't test with just one halfshaft installed, the differential is floating so I got a big play with just one halfshaft in place.
I've read about a brake bias valve that can reduce the pressue in a line by as much as 57%, do you think thats enough to mean i can run back discs with standard front brakes, while money is tight. Fronts to follow soon.
Yes I think 57% is more than enough since the size of the S40 discs is nearly the same as the Scimitar front discs.
Oh and is it easy to get the (not sure whats its name is,) the big thing that the wheel bolts to, off to get to the back plate?
The
hubs!
Can be tricky to disassemble..
This is how I made it:
Store the entire halfshaft in a cold place, this season is perfect since you can put it outdoors for an hour before placing it in a press, load with 5 tons on the shaft end, heat the hub with acetylene, press a little more.. BANG! Now they should separate!
An alternative to winter outdoor storage is to cool the hub with carbon oxide (fire extinguisher)..
Thanks all, great forum going, very intersting reading.
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