{"id":219,"date":"2007-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:12:02","slug":"bel-airmore-brake-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"More Brake Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately after driving a bit more my brakes went back to being poor, so after triple checking all the pipework I decided to replace the master cylinder. After a bit of searching, I found one that was the right bore on ebay, and it was chrome as well so will look pretty. After bench bleeding it, I fitted it and started bleeding again. The rears were perfect, but I could not get the fronts to push out much fluid with the bleeders open. I re-bled the master and gave it another go but still wasnt moving much fluid at the front. A quick test and I could lock one of the fronts, and the car stops better than ever but I&#8217;m not convinced they are working as well as they could. A check of the pin to master distance with some play-doh showed it to be about a mm out so I&#8217;m at a loss what can be doing it now.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"336\" alt=\"ChromeBooster.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/08\/ChromeBooster.jpg\" \/>   I&#8217;d well and truly had enough of messing with brake fluid, including emptying a container over myself coming out from under the car, so decided to have a tidy up of some of the loose wiring instead. I cut the fuel pump relay feed down to the right length, and gaffer taped all the rear loom down. I did the same inside the car and re-connected the reversing lights while I was at it. I also made a bracket for the inner wing to hold it in place as it was missing and did some general tidying up. Not exactly a great day but I&#8217;m getting somewhere at least.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"299\" alt=\"Bootsy.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/08\/Bootsy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately after driving a bit more my brakes went back to being poor, so after triple checking all the pipework I decided to replace the master cylinder. After a bit of searching, I found one that was the right bore on ebay, and it was chrome as well so will look pretty. After bench bleeding it, I fitted it and started bleeding again. The rears were perfect, but I could not get the fronts to push out much fluid with the bleeders open. I re-bled the master and gave it another go but still wasnt moving much fluid at the front. A quick test and I could lock one of the fronts, and the car stops better than ever but I&#8217;m not convinced they are working as well as they could. A check of the pin to master distance with some play-doh showed it to be about a mm out so I&#8217;m at a loss what can be doing it now.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"336\" alt=\"ChromeBooster.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/08\/ChromeBooster.jpg\" \/>   I&#8217;d well and truly had enough of messing with brake fluid, including emptying a container over myself coming out from under the car, so decided to have a tidy up of some of the loose wiring instead. I cut the fuel pump relay feed down to the right length, and gaffer taped all the rear loom down. I did the same inside the car and re-connected the reversing lights while I was at it. I also made a bracket for the inner wing to hold it in place as it was missing and did some general tidying up. Not exactly a great day but I&#8217;m getting somewhere at least.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"299\" alt=\"Bootsy.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2007\/08\/Bootsy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bel-air","category-brakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}