It looks like I have enough parts to get the new master cylinder to work on my old Toyota so I started with that project today.
Double flare kit
Marty had loaned me his double flare kit tool so I was able to do double flares which most brakes require.
Here’s the kit in action as I flare the pipe ends to make a splice as the old brake line nut is metric and the new one needs an SAE nut to make it all work.
Where’s the darn line nuts
Of course I couldn’t find the pipe line nuts I had to make the splice. I knew I just had them, but what happened to them. I looked all around several times and was about to give up so started to collect the tools and I found the nuts under the flare kit box so I continued.
Spliced brake line
Here’s the brake line that I’m modifying with a splice and a new end that’s the right one.
Close up of the line splice and new nut I installed.
I put that aside for now as I wanted to work on a van project that needs done.
Column shifter rod bracket
My shifter rods won’t stay where they are supposed to so I kluged a clamp on them but I haven’t been happy with the repair. It works but the clamp wants to fall lower on the rods which is making it hard to shift so I have an idea.
I removed the clamp and measured things up for a bracket. I had some half inch plastic so made this bracket out of it.
I thought it would look better black than white so I got the black paint out and put some paint on it.
Looking good
I installed it and tried the shifter out and I was impressed as it fixed it right up so it shifts much better now. I need to get some quarter inch bolts to finish that project off as I only had one and I need two.
I was happy that worked out as well as it did as one thing I don’t want is trouble with the gear shifter while out on a trip.
Rebar for grower panels
After a break I cut some rebar to make some more grower panels.
Here I’m cutting the rebar to size with my power hand band saw.
Here’s most of the rebar cut, but I found out I hadn’t cut enough, so I cut some more.
Welding rebar panels
Once all the rebar was cut I setup for welding and welded up the panels. I still need to put some inner support rebar in them to hold up the wire but it was good to get this part done.
Hooking up the master cylinder
Just before dark I was chair hopping around the yard not really wanting to do anything, but I picked up the Toyota master cylinder and started hooking up the brake line I’d spliced earlier in the day.
It went on fairly easy once I had everything right and it all worked out. I filled up the reservoir with brake fluid but didn’t want to bleed the brakes yet as l need to check the wheel cylinders I think at least one of them is leaking.
Even though I just puttered around I got quite a bit accomplished working on those three projects, so a good day.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
