Brake calipers

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:27:14 +1000

There are some things you don't want done in the garage by someone
with a beer in one hand, a Haynes book of lies open on a milk crate
and a set of cheap Chinese tools...


Zebee

 

Agreed
sometimes you just want " the right person"

 

Yeah
I was about to make a high PSA eyes watering remark but now I won't.

 

It was a response to an off-line remark about double clutching without
a clutch. I thought a full description might circumvent snide comments
from idiots.
I was wrong of course - idiots prevail OK.

 

You have to be more precise for this lot George
I know what you mean when you say double clutch with using the clutch
It is all in listening to the revs and judging the revs as against the speed
of the vehicle
Simple stuff, done it many times,
I probably learned how to do it when I was driving a jail bar truck with a
crash box,
but for this lot here, you have to be a pedant otherwise they will never
understand what you said, even though what you have said is not as is
written in THE BOOK,

 

"locking horns with a guy".

*snigger!*


BTH

 

I read it because I'm intrigued with these blokes who claim to have grown
up on a farm in the grip of appalling poverty who nonetheless always seem
to have had free and unfettered access to a dozen motor vehicles,
motorbikes, go-karts, etc.

While my own family's farm wasn't what I'd call "wealthy", I can't recall
it exceeding 1 car, 1 truck, 1 tractor and 1 motorbike. To be fair I did
of course have a bicycle, which was about 40 years old at the time.

So, who wants to be Josiah and Obadiah for the rest of this sketch?


BTH

 

Apart from the obligatory (and much deserved) "erk", can I just add that
there
is and was absolutely zero "locking horns".
Any reader of the thread (and I doubt there were many) would know that
poor old George was just throwing a bit of a tantrum because he felt a
bit silly.
Naturally this worked a treat and he now looks less silly. [1]

 

I guess that everyone is entitled to one misteak a day and that was mine
I meant without using the clutch

 

Hmmmm - Did you buy the correct part from the dealer?

 

I'm fucking good at it...that's because me left wrist is buggered and I
tend to save clutch operation for starting off from a standstill

 

Make sure you clean out the groove the seal sits in good an' proper or
it'll be a tight fit

And lube the seal before insertion


of the piston with some clean brake fluid

 

Fulliautomatix wrote:
(snip)

Or the afore-mentioned Silicone-spray.
Not oil or WD40 though; petroleum products and rubber don't get on.

 

Wow; are you *still* replying to me after saying goodbye so many time
George?
I've really got you on a string haven't I....

 

Geez Gerry you spelt Neanderthal wrong! What kind of a group do you
think this is? Hang your head in shame.

;-)

 

I ddin't grow up on a farm and didn't have a licence or a car till I
was 20. Most cars at that time, including Holdens and Fords, had a
three or four speed box. First gear was normally without synchromesh.
In most cases you only engaged first gear when you were stationary. To
engage first when moving you had better figure out how to double-
declutch else you heard loud, embarrassing, and sometimes expensive
noises. All trucks were without synchro, so anyone who got to drive a
truck of any kind needed to learn that skill. Operating a 'crash'
gearbox without a clutch is another skill entirely and something few
people would be in a position to learn.

My first car was a 1949 Morris 8 van which boasted a 0-50mph time of
several minutes, was absolutely flat out at 65 mph and 25 years old
when I acquired it. When I got my licence I got to drive a company
Holden van which had no synchro on first.

Theo

 

In 1977 I learned to drive in a 1956 MG Magnette saloon. No synchro in
first and a bitch to get back from 3rd to 2nd so learned double
declutching at the age of 17.

A couple of years later I had turbocharged my MkII Escort and as there
were few aftermarket turbo installs back then we had quite a few
problems to solve. One was getting the clutch to hold the horsepower
(we ended up get a sawblade machined to said use) and then getting the
cable clutch to stop ripping the cable mount out of the firewall,
leaving me to drive to the workshop with no clutch at all quite a few
times til we got firewall mounts and cables sorted that could take the
strain. Was interesting getting through city (admittedly only
Launceston) by switching the engine off at lights then engaging first
and diving off the line on the starter motor then clutchless changes
after that.

On a similar vein, I was in Port Sorell on NE Coast of Tas a couple of
years ago in a cheapo Daewoo Espero [1] I had bought after I got back
from the UK. I was turning off the main highway and dropped back to
second. It appears that as I did that a pin dropped out f the gearbox
and I was then stuck in second gear. 100km from home. With no money.

I was there to visit a friend so got to her place and carefully
selected where to park the car. I still had clutch but this thing had
quite tall gearing and I had to ride the clutch like a mad bastard to
get it going again (like, tall enough to travel back to Lonny at
100-110 km/h without too uch stress) and then time the lights in the
city centre without having to stop. I had to select a route where I
was not going to have to stop at lights that equired an uphill start
or there was no way I would get it going. And Launceston is full of
hills.

I will admit to coming in from a direction that put me near my
favourite pub near a slight downhill incline and parking the car there
and going for a couple of beers and waiting for what there is of
Launceston's peak hour to die down. Good excuse eh?

Kev

[1] A surprisingle good car actually. About 6 years old, fully
equipped with everything electrical and handled and went surprisingly
well. I'd poo-poo'd them in the past, but won't again. It's the model
that looks a bit like the older Subaru iberty.

 

Well, at least *someone* got it.

 

theo wrote:

Fiat 500s of the sixties didn't have synchromesh at all.

Back in the late 60's, auto transmissions were all mechanical, and my
"party trick" was double de-clutching into first gear at about 70 mph,
on an auto.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

The company I worked for, NCR, did some experimenting with company
cars, so I got an EH Holden van, a Fiat 500, and a Mini 850 van in the
sixties. I never noticed that the Fiat didn't have synchro.

Theo