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Re: Brake Piece
> >From the discussions I think one point has not been made clear. When
> the lever is full dis-engaged, that is no hands on it, all the way
> out etc. there is a completelopen path of fluid from the reservoir
> to the slave cylinders. Which is why the MityVac works :-)
oh! right -- if forgot about that.
> In other words, the master cylinder only has to be big enough for
> the instantaneous movement of the slave cylinder, not for the over
> all movement of the life of the pads.
right. sorry. forget everything i said before. :-)
pad travel and lever movement are more related to the _area_ of their
respective cylinders than to their volume, and that relationship is
fixed, even as the pads wear.
the problem must clearly be in the reservoir height.
paul
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paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 25.2 degrees)
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