As mentioned by a couple of people on here, the 1/4" nylaflow tubing has a lot
of expansion when under pressure and sacrifices a great deal of brake pressure
to tube expansion. I have changed over 6 planes from 1/4" to 3/16" nylaflow
tubing with significant improvement in brake function. Those i
Dan
When you say 11x4.00x5 are you referring to the tyre size that you want to
use on the rim? Ik my memory serves me correctly, that is the old "lamb"
tyre size. I have a set of those on my grove wheels on my KR project right
now.
As mentioned as well, the tube size used feeding the brakes makes a
Yes, I looked as best I could on their web site, but did not get any answer
to my inquiry. I find it very disconcerting to order stuff that you are not
familiar with, online. They do look very good and I was surprised that the
price was in line with the Matco prices. They did not show an 11 X 4.
Yes, I also suspect the tubing and when I replace these brakes with the
Matco's that I just ordered, I am going to replace all the tubing as well
with what Matco recommends, so there will be no excuses for them to not be
working. I know it is stupid of me to not try to work through this problem
an
I had an issue with brakes ( Cleveland ) several years ago on my S and it
turned out to be something very unusual.The brake fluid gelled in
the lines, it came out like runny pudding. I did have the red fluid in and
never really understood why that happened. I blew out the old fluid a
Dan -My brakes weren't all that brilliant and I put it down to the plastic
hydraulic pipe expansion taking up some hydraulic pressure and not
transmitting the pressure direct to the brake cylinder.
I was going to change to ally pipe -but never got round to it!
I think this subject has been aired
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