Monday, June 11, 2007

I need clamps, lot's of clamps!

No pictures today. Sorry.

Next step was re-clamping half of the pressurized intake with high strenght clamps (passengers side, because drivers side is already done). It's whole snake's nest there ;).

After re-doing bunch of clamps, it's time for the brakes. Disassembled whole front right brake, and saw, that it's not right at all. The problems in one package - first, as I've suspected, the caliper bracket was not having good contact with the strut. Due to typ85 strut construction, it should precisely match machined part of the strut. It needed around one mm to have full contact. Easily corrected that with file. Next, let's see how caliper contacts the carrier. Not very good, also caliper touches the wheel (wheel is bent a little). Where is my angle grinder?

It looked like I've shaved only ~0.5 mm, but maybe it's blur after being sick, or just I'm stupid - 2mm, and with the angle. Damn! Took a file, and managed to correct the angle a bit. So needed to put 2.5mm aluminium washer, and this made wheel to be even closer to caliper. What to do? Measured where it touches caliper, and shaved around milimeter (with a file this time). With pain in my heart of course, because it's hard to do such barbarism to 300eur worth performance part :(. Was pretty much satisfied with results - wheel spinning freely, caliper is aligned better than before. Brake bedding and test will tell how it is.

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