[Healeys] Bad Brakes - Now Good Brakes

[Richard Ewald]

I don't claim to be a hydraulics expert, but common sense says that compared
to a 7/8" cylinder a 1" cylinder would have the following characteristics.
More pressure ( given the same psi of input pressure, more square inches of
surface area = more total pressure.)
Further travel on the pedal to get the same effect at the wheels (The volume
of a cylinder that is 1" dia by X height is greater than a cylinder of 7/8"
diameter by the same height)
But hey I have been wrong before...
Rick

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Ray Juncal <healeyray at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Patrick
>   I'm not a hydraulic expert myself but I think it's the other way around.
> Smaller diameter wheel cylinders give more pressure for the same pedal
> travel.  Let me know what replies you get.  I very well could be wrong and
> I
> want to know.
> Regards