[C1] front wheel cylinders
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See posting #9 in this thread:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-question.html
Since that thread ran its course, photo*ucket decided to be annoying. All of the original pictures have been restored and are visible if you just scroll down far enough.
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-question.html
Since that thread ran its course, photo*ucket decided to be annoying. All of the original pictures have been restored and are visible if you just scroll down far enough.
Last edited by jim lockwood; Feb 10, 2018 at 01:22 PM.
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Edit: Looks like my memory isn't as bad as it usually is:
With some cleverness this could probably be made to work. There could be an issue with the alignment of the anchor pin and the web of the brake shoes.
NAPA numbers are 34151 and 34152 if anyone feels adventurous.
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retiring minds want to know... can they be made to work if all else fails?
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But if you don't mind firing up your angle grinder, what I proposed in the other thread works just fine, guaranteed.
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I love a challenge, but with 4whl discs I don't have a need... BUT I do have oversize single piston front calipers (now if I could only remember where I got them from...
)Bill
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I haven't seen it metnioned, maybe I missed it. Has anyone tried honing and rebuilding their wheel cylinders? I never buy new wheel cylinders if I can rebuild them.
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and, there are places the wheel cylinders can be sent off to to be rebuilt.
Bill
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I took an old worn out pair of 1.125 cylinders and machined them to 1.187 using my Sunnen Rod machine, many years and many thousand miles later
they are still in service.
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