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    and a writeup for filling the tires with air would be helpful
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    Man, I don't know. It could be a lot of things. I know I just measured when I extended my push rod from manual to power but if I had to guess, 5/8 seems short to me. If you don't have enough stroke, it sure could prevent you from getting them bled and getting much/any pressure but how much too short would be a big factor.

    Did you get all 4 filled and bled at all? Unless you're really short, I would think you should get some pressure. But if you made it way too short, I could see it. I can try to measure mine, but I'm not sure they would be the same anyway.

    Wait, you went from power to manual? Did I read that right?
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    Oh, gotcha. Yeah, sounds like your push rod is too short if it is only getting a small amount of fluid to move before hitting the floor.
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    Today's post is exciting, you are getting close Tom! I'm excited to see this thing rolling again. I need to get my wreck of shit finished so We can run em together on the maiden voyage of yours and mine being on the longarms.
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    Wait how big are your tires? And you have manual brakes?

    My 2a ran a vette Mc but with a power booster and had disc's all around. It stopped fine. But without the motor running I had to stand on em pretty hard...
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    It'll be interesting. Hoping it works awesome man.
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    I don't think your manual brakes should be a concern just because they are manual. I chose manual on my samurai and although admittedly, it hasn't been over about 10mph, I could lock up 42s with manual brakes pretty easily. If you have everything matched correctly, you should be good.

    And I do have one concern with your setup (I never took any fluid dynamics classes so take this with a grain of salt). I get that you chose the larger bore master for more fluid to match with the larger fluid capacity of the calipers. That makes sense. My disconnect, is that it is more fluid to push with the same size lever arm (pedal length). The amount of work (you're foot pushing) that is required is in my mind going to be about the same as before, but now with larger tires. I'm not sure you've done anything to improve the stopping power you provide to the calipers (ie. psi @ a given input of work from your foot), but you have upgraded the calipers. Basically, you're stopping should improve only by whatever advantage the larger pad surface of the larger caliper is providing.

    I used a longer pedal with my system so the same amount of pressure on the pedal would effectively be increasing the psi. to the caliper (given the same amount of work from my foot as with a shorter pedal).

    Summary: If you didn't change your pedal length, I'm not sure you'll have a lot of gains in how hard you have to push to stop other than the increased pad size.

    I really hope it works out for you. I'm very curious.

    And, glad you're getting close to mobile again. Shotgun!

    ps. Above only applies if you have the same diameter bore MC now as before. Do you?
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    You have a really nice cage. I'll drive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deadman 94 xj View Post
    Radiator came in. I'm going to work on mounting it up this weekend. It's aluminum and there arn't any tabs on it so it should be interesting. I have an idea of what I want to do to mount it but any ideas are welcome. Pics are a plus.
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    Looks good man!
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    looks good, you need to get some rubbers in the ounts between the steel and aluminum. it will wear a hole in the radiator and cause corrosion (dissimilar metals) also, don't put a lot of pressure on the rad, just enough to hold it.
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    You could plastidip the mounts
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    That thing has come a long way since you got it!

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    Dude. It looks so good. A lot like my old willys. Man that thing is cool
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    Looks sweet
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    That turned out really nice tom!
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    What's your budget? It's hard to be a set of smooth body FOAs for the ability revalve.
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    I lost interest in this thread when the "post-jacking" whining happened

    But after seeing the pics of it outside, I'm back lol looks friggin sweet man, I dig it!
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    Looks good Tom ! I like the stance.
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    I'm bored at work and want to see someone else accomplish something since I'm not... how about an update on latest work.
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    That's a beefy traction bar. Nice job.
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