Give me a brake

[Rob Sannes]

Hi just a little update. I have been trying to tend to some nagging issues with my 56. One item was brake lights. I have lights if I mash the pedal pretty hard. The problem is just easy braking it just doesn't light the brake lights. The switches are new so I decided to use a limit switch on the pedal.
Just made a bracket attached the switch then wrapped it up with some water resistant covering now the lights come on immediately when the pedal is depressed. So I was admiring my work when I heard a spffff noise when I pressed the pedal. And it was a leak. I had what I believe was a original 1956 long brake line. It had rotted out at the front inside the grommet. Dave from Port Alberni dropped off a kit for me along with some Idle jets for my 44's at sea tops in nanaimo. He was picking up some really nicely done seats for his 58. Any way once home I went to work. I pulled the fuel tank drivers and rear seat bottom. I also had to drop my external oil cooler and fan in the rear to access the rear coupler. Its amazing that this line has never been replaced yet every other line had recently been replaced. I had to dig it out of seam sealer. Fought it a bit and real-estate around the master cylinder is tight due to the line lock but the line is installed. I need to re install the oil cooler fuel tank and the interior then bleed the air out of the lines.

[tony]

Now that's something I can appreciate , a limit switch for the brake lights! 😎👍 Was it from an old microwave or something?

[Rob Sannes]

Mar 31, 2022 19:17:13 GMT -8 tony said:

Now that's something I can appreciate , a limit switch for the brake lights! 😎👍 Was it from an old microwave or something?

Thanks Tony. This one was from an old photo copier but there are many many like it that would work.

[tony]

😎

[magikbus]

Speaking of brakes..... How's this for a fantasy arrangement. I had a buddy who worked as a civilian tech for the rcmp. He was sent to Afghanistan to reverse engineer ieds (roadside bombs). He got so that he could tell which terrorist made which bombs just by looking at the arrangement of the components. Anyway I asked him once to look into a brake light kit for me that would do the following to a back window center mounted brake light.

when the gas pedal was pressed (activated) the light would be green. when no pedal was activated (coasting) the light would be yellow or orange When the brake pedal was activated the light would be red,.

He askd some of his rcmp buddies in the accident reconstruction teams how that could work to enhance, distract or do nothing for following traffic. He told me it would probably be a distraction to following drivers and therefore result in an increase in the number of drivers rear ending me. I always thought they were wrong and were just jealousl they didn't think of it.
Stan