Which Big Brake kit. Van Cafe or Smallcar.

[MsTaboo]

Yep, I bench filled the new cylinder on the Joker.
If I'm gonna remove the clutch master anyway (to fill), I might as well get a fresh one.
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[insyncro]

Adding fluid directly to the cylinder, reconnecting and bleeding is what I feel will help if it has any life left in it.

The air pocket is in the master.

I use like a 1/4 - 1/2 of a pint to bleed when I prefilled all cylinders.

[MsTaboo]

When I did the brake change I kept air out of the system as best I could. Always kept the res full, never dropped below fill line.
Bled brakes, got rears completely clear of air, had a little more trouble with fronts. Bled clutch, got a fair amount of air out, was surprised there was any at all!
Clutch would alternate between feeling ok to completely flat. Finally got all air out (over a quart of fluid through lines!) but clutch pedal never came back.
As far as I know this is the original master cylinder.

When I did the clutch master on the Joker I was able to achieve full action after only a pint. And that was with full drain down of front lines.

I'll run more fluid through if you think it might help.
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[insyncro]

Are you sure it is bled out completely?
Gravity draining can cause air to get into the cylinder and not be easily bled out.

I didn't have any luck rebuilding them years ago.

With new one, I open them up and inspect them completely.

I have had to remove them and use a syringe to get fluid into them on the bench, than install, than power bleeder in the past.

Removing the slave from the bracket and getting it as low as possible has also helped before.

Hope this helps.

[syncrodoka]

[MsTaboo]

Well, my VC big brake kit is in and while I'm still doing the bed in on the new pads everything is working well and there is already a notable difference in performance.

However, now I have a new problem. The clutch master cylinder, which was working fine, has crapped out.
I guess it couldn't handle new fluid. As part of the brake upgrade I took the time to completely flush all the old fluid out of both systems. The fluid was pretty dark in the clutch system, not so bad in the brakes. I had flushed the brake system back a year or so ago when I rebuilt the rears.

Time for a new clutch master cylinder. I just did this job on the Joker!

Sure wish we could get rebuild kits for these! The one I took out of the Joker looks brand new. Even the bore is clean, just old seals.
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[MsTaboo]

Here is what I ended up doing.
The white washers are made from UHMW plastic, and serve as spacers for the tension spring only.

Everything clears nicely and the homemade mount seems to hold the rigid line pretty firm.
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[Jake de Villiers]

[Crankey]

excellent ! thank you Dylan.

[insyncro]

For use on a 2wd van, the SA hubs allow for many different calipers and rotors to be used.
Backspacing the caliper with an adapter will be unique to each of the different calipers.

[Crankey]

[insyncro]

Nope, no pictures at this time.

Take flat stock, drill a hole where it will attach to the caliper, heat the center of the stock in a vice, twist it to the desired angle, drill a hole for the union of the lines and assemble.

Some of the SA calipers I have seen in the past lack a tapped hole for this.
If so, I make up my own braided lines with a swivel banjo fitting at the caliper and only support the braided line at the stock location on the upright, knuckle, spindle....what every you want to call it.

If you want to use the lines you have....get a male/male adapter to attach the line directly to the caliper.
If you do this, drop the suspension to full droop while on stands to make sure the line is long enough.
Attach it to the knuckle at full droop.

[MsTaboo]

[insyncro]

[MsTaboo]

Hi everyone who has VC Big Brakes.

What did you do about the hose support where the flex line meets the hard line at the caliper?
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[Jake de Villiers]

[NorthbyNorthWesty]

We have a syncro with 17" tires and want bigger brakes. Anything we need to consider when comparing?

[stclair411]

Having a real hard time getting the VC kit to work with my 15x6 Mefros. Going back to stock for now so I can get back on the road. Can anyone recommend a kit that works well with these wheels with no modifications? Thanks!
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[photogdave]

[stclair411]