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Re: TR6 Rear Brake Cylinders - .75"

To: Jim Farris <jfarris@troy.edu>
Subject: Re: TR6 Rear Brake Cylinders - .75"
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:57:50 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jim Farris wrote:

> Does anyone know a good source for the .75" rear brake cylinders that will
> fit a TR6 without modification?

If this is the "Sunbeam Alpine rear wheel cyl.", then the Vicky Brit part
number appears to be 7-946. The other label on the box says "Made in EEC
Italy WC4983" and the box is labelled "BRAKE engineering".

But I think this one is a 7/8" (.875) bore, not .75 - I can't recall and I
can't pull the wheel cyls. to check. It does, however, result in a nice
shift of the brake balance to the rear. Highly recommended. If I got the
bore wrong, then the .875" bore is from a Morgan. I forget.

The one difference in this installation is that the bleeder is metric, so
you need a 10mm wrench to bleed the rears. Other than that, it's a "slip
in fit".

There are Triumph specialty shops that sell this "upgrade", but I bought a
pair from Vicky Brit about 4 years ago.

> Thanks,
> Jim Farris
> Montgomery AL

regards,
rml
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