BTW,
There is a Riley One point Five being offered for free on the Healey list,
it's in NO. CA somewhere. The point is that that car has bolt on 8" rear
drums and a bolt on 3.7 ratio differential....
Dave@SWCP.com Taos Garage Annex in Albuquerque
'59 AH :{) '54 100
http://www.britishcarforum.com/TaosAnnex.htm
----- Original Message -----
From "Myles Winbigler" <mwinbigler at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Moomaw, Mike" <Mike.Moomaw@usi.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Brake Problem or Just Drum Brakes
> Mike,
>
>
> > Question about my stock Bugeye:
> >
> > Under semi-hard breaking my rear wheels tend to lock up first. The
> > front tires have never locked up. This leads me to believe that there
> > is a problem with my front brakes (and that I am leaving some braking
> > capability one the table). I have spent some time debugging the front
> > brakes - checking them, bleeding them, etc.
> >
> > While sitting in the office thinking about what to do next I had a
> > though - maybe this is characteristic of the weak front drums on the
> > early Sprites.
> >
> Back in the 60's we had to run drums on Bugeyes in SCCA. It's been a
while,
> but I do recall being able to lock fronts. One of the problems with stock
> Bugeyes is that the rear springs are way too stiff relative to the fronts.
> I wouldn't be surprised that you're locking the rears first under heavy
> braking partially because you are unloading the rear wheels (nose dive)
and
> perhaps losing traction because of the lightly loaded wheel hitting
> relatively minor imperfections in the road.
>
> If you stay with drums and want to fix them (and have some money to
spend),
> you can investigate some of the following solutions:
> 1. softer rear springs
> 2. a really good rebuild of the fronts with high adhesion brake material
> 3. a front/rear proportioning valve (allowing to reduce the pressure on
the
> rears)
> 4. a dual braking system with proportioning adjustment
>
> Myles Winbigler
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