Rear Brake Lines - Exact Fitting Rear to Cylinders

[MikeB]

After tips for the rear brake flexi's, I bought the exact from silvian which are really nice quality.
The rears have the 45 deg bend on the fixed part and I thought were meant to fit straight into the wheel cylinder (drum brake set up), when I tried mine it fowled the top part of the rear upright.

Has anyone got any pictures of there's clearing the upright, I can only think I have assembly hub assembly wrong. I have rear upright then the back plate that holds the cylinder then the hub assembly bearing block.

[Talonmotorsport]

Are your uprights set horizontal or are they set at 30'? I remember seeing a part in AdrianH's build thread about making a solid (copper pipe) section in an S shape that was secured to the upright then a rubber flexi to get around this problem.

[Tatey]

I will take some pictures later on of my setup, it is a tight fit but it does go, I have drums and Sylvain's brake lines.

[MikeB]

Thank tatey,
Sylvain thinks that as all uprights will be built slight different some may foul by a couple mm needing the upright to tweeked to fit.

Could you also let me know if you have the handbrake cable coming in from the front end of the back plate (how I think its meath to be) or from the rear.

Also is their and adjust nut on your drums (i didn't take mine apart) and I can't find one.

[Tatey]

Mike,

The handbrake cable goes in from the back of the car forward as shown below, the handbrake shoes are self adjusting, there is a cam mechanism at the top of the drum setup than when you pull on the handbrake it will automatically adjust the shoes.

The rear brake lines are tight against the uprights, but mine can be moved slightly, however they are just touching. One method I used for installing them was to loosen the bearing hub from the rear upright slightly so that you get around an extra 10mm of clearance and then you can fit the handbrake cable and rear brake line with ease and then you can tighten them up again, however you need to watch to make sure you dont damage anything when you tighten them up if there isnt enough clearance. I have known people to have to slightly modify their rear uprights to allow enough space for the handbrake cable to fit

[twinturbo]

Surely a notch in the upright is the simple easy solution, it won't significantly affect the strength of the upright and make clearance issues "Non issues"

TT