Dave Robsons Challenger R/T

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Jan 21, 08 12:42 pm

I'm selling the bugger if I don't.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Mon Jan 21, 08 12:53 pm

your turn dave, no time to do any work on brl any more at present

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jan 21, 08 9:09 pm

Firewall's looking great Dave well done, this is looking all to familiar, keep it up..

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Mon Jan 21, 08 9:59 pm

Great Job dave, looking grand mate......
..reminds me of when i did the dash out bit on mine

,Im thinking it needs doing again if i paint it end of this year
Top stuff gonna look the Nuts

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Jan 21, 08 11:00 pm

andyrob wrote:your turn dave, no time to do any work on brl any more at present

bloody ell andy what work you bin doin on bri then you dirty devil

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Tue Jan 22, 08 9:15 am

Dunc. We will have to work out how to get that parcel of yours to you.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Tue Jan 22, 08 3:05 pm

Dave wrote:Dunc. We will have to work out how to get that parcel of yours to you.

yes dave perhaps we could send it down person by person what you reckon,

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jan 22, 08 9:16 pm

Bananarama! me Dave, that is going to be an awesome car and if you and Clivey both make it to the Nats this year I think they will need two best of show awards

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Feb 03, 08 6:24 pm

Not been that well lately and when me head is OK I have had a bad back!

But managed to fit the brake system this afternoon.

That is a new Strange Engineering master cylinder (slightly smaller bore than my old lightweight MP unit) which needs to come off again for bench bleeding now I have sorted out the brake lines.

The electric line lock used to reside on the inner fender. I have now mounted it on an ally plate where the bulkhead connector used to be.

Big thanks to BLUE for supplying a brake fitting I needed.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Sun Feb 03, 08 7:18 pm

Have you not made a set of bent over pipes to bleed it in situ Dave?

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Sun Feb 03, 08 8:15 pm

Similar thinking Kev ....well on that id guess

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Sun Feb 03, 08 10:14 pm

Yes. I have the bent over pipes. But it is better to bench bleed on the bench. That is why it is called bench bleeding.

The reason being that you want to make sure you get FULL travel of the piston in the bore to squeeze out all the air. It is no good if the pedal hits the floor first.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Feb 03, 08 10:21 pm

Don't wanna spill the fuid over the paintwork either.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Feb 03, 08 10:33 pm

Aint that the truth

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Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Feb 04, 08 10:19 am

I tell you. When I first fitted the MP lighweight MC years ago me and Linda were not impressed with the brake performance.
I had bled the master cylinder on the car because I couldn't see a problem with that.

But the pedal was still too soft.

So just in case I took the MC off the car and bled it in the vice.
Guess what? Loads of air came out when you pushed the piston all the way in. Not just on one stroke either. It took a few strokes to clear it.

I found a little air in the front disc pistons too despite lots of bleeding.

After all that we had a rock hard pedal.

So I know what to expect this time around.

Think I might replace the rear flexy hose before I do it though.