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1st June 2009 - 06:05 PM
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Ok so legalities, aside, will it fix my problem? It is registered and street driven, but I typically trailer it to events if i know there will be a police presence. The handbrake on my skyline is getting to be unpredictable, in that it wont always lock the rears as easily. Cable is obviously stretched, and will no doubt keep stretching due to the way the vehicle is being driven. I dont want to have to keep adjusting it etc, and want a more solid feel when engaging the handbrake. From my understanding, a hydraulic handbrake uses a proper brake line with brake fluid to lock the rear calipers? Would give a much more accurate feel, and be much more consistent with when it locks the rears. How do you fit one of these? Does it plumb into your existing rear brake lines? I dont understand how it wouldnt affect the front brakes, unless the proportioning valve will autmatically combat the pressure coming from the rear brake lines back up to interfere with the fronts... -------------------- Helping smart-arses look like dumb-arses since August '85
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mongrel_cae71
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most of those hydraulic handbrakes you buy have a land rover style master cylinder on them, basically you cut the hydraulic line going to the rear and run it through the handbrakes master cyl. Re-bleed the brakes and away you go. |
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lil_bobby_260
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Ok so the built in master cylinder has a one-way check valve sort of setup? That would make sense.... So realistically i will just need to find the brake line/s for the rears, and divert them so that they run into the cabin to the handbrake (using y-pieces if necessary to change it to a single line), feed it into the handbrake, then back out, another y-piece if needed to split it back into two lines, and back down to rejoin the original brake lines....? |
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whykickamoocow
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http://wiki.r31skylineclub.com/index.php?t...aulic_Handbrake |
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