[Tigers] mushy Wilwood brakes

Sat Jun 11 12:28:10 MDT 2016

Dot 4

From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Rollright--- via Tigers
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 1:54 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] mushy Wilwood brakes

What brake fluid are you running?  Is it dot 4 or dot 5

Jim Armstrong
Mk 1A

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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:33:28 -0500
From: "Jim McLaughlin" <jimmc13 at socket.net <mailto:jimmc13 at socket.net> >
To: "'Rob Hogan'" <robertdhogan at gmail.com <mailto:robertdhogan at gmail.com> >,
<tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> >
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Activity
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Rob:
I really like my 10 and 3/4? front brakes, I used this size as I still have
13 inch wheels.  The setup work very well as I have a Wilwood proportioning
valve to adjust front to rear effort to my driving style, or perhaps lack
of.  One problem I have is that I use a 1980 Subaru Brat M/C to gain a dual
chamber master, this has turned out to be the weak link.  While I got plenty
of help from Wilwood Tech about setup, when I asked for then to recommend a
dual chamber M/C I have not heard back and it?s been over a year.  I drive
the car fairly regularly, it runs and stops great, brake pedal is soft on
initial press of pedal.  Brakes have been bled several times and the M/C
does not leak and no fluid has been lost.  I do need a line on a better
Master.  The great is quite fast and I would say my stopping confidence for
me driving is about 80 to 85% sat.  My son told me the pedal is too mushy
for him.  My wife will not drive it yet, so just my oldest son and I have
driven it.  So th
is needs
  attention.  I am still looking.  
The actual caliper setup with drums on the rear is awesome for street use
and maybe when a new M/C is fitted something a little more, noting the car
is very fast!
By the way I used Classic tube hard lines for the car except for the M/C
connections in the engine bay to the valve, they are custom bent.  I would
use this method again for another Tiger, but it would have to be Midnight
Blue (58)!!!

Jim

From: Rob Hogan [mailto:robertdhogan at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 8:28 AM
To: Jim McLaughlin <jimmc13 at socket.net <mailto:jimmc13 at socket.net> >
Cc: Tiger's List <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> >
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Activity

Jim,

Have you had a large amount of driving experience with the front Wilwood and
rear drum brake setup?
I am considering that same brake combination and also whether to convert the
rear brakes to Wilwood disks with Dale's kit.
What I'm trying ta assess is how much better the front only conversion is in
comparison to the stock Tiger brakes and also the full conversion to the
front only Wilwood disks.  Any advice on what you may have learned would be
very helpful.

Rob

Rob Hogan

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jim McLaughlin via Tigers
<tigers at autox.team.net
<mailto:tigers at autox.team.net%20%3cmailto:tigers at autox.team.net>
<mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> > wrote:
Tiger listers:

I seem to continue to receive info from you folks.  I would  offer that as a
former member of facebook, I utilize and appreciate and use this list almost
daily, sometimes even add when I have something to offer.
As for social media, consider this, I closed my facebook account over 2
years ago when they were exposed conducting an experiment posting positive
and negative info to selected facebook members as an unannounced experiment,
really, I personally do not need to be part of this BS nor will I. 

Here is the result of your contributions to my restoration effort, a 1966
Mark1(a) Tiger with a modified 260, posit track rear-end, Wilwood front
discs, stock rear drums, a really nice car, oh yes, Martha C. interior.
So thanks and let?s consider this one of the reasons to keep going.

Jim McLaughlin
B382000175LRXFE
P.S. at St Mary?s Aldermanbury (Christopher Wren) in Fulton, MO originally
destroyed during the battle of London in WW2 and given by the people of the
UK to Fulton after Churchill?s Iron Curtain speech.

From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net
<mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net%20%3cmailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.
net%3e%20> <mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> ] On Behalf Of Norman C.
Miller via Tigers
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 10:04 AM
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At 09:38 AM 6/7/2016, Tom Hall via Tigers wrote:
Not having received anything frim the Tiger List since may 27th, I sent a
test message to the List and received three responces. One of the responders
copied the list.  I got his responce in my personel mail, but no cc from the
list.  There is nothing from the list in my Comcast spam file!  What gives?

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