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Karmann Komment Volume 38 | Issue 3
KEVIN HOPCROFT BLOG continued...
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It’s now time to look at the pedal cluster and
like everything on the car, it’s showing it’s age.
So a complete strip was necessary. Some parts
needed straightening and then they all needed 10 painting and lubricating with copper slip grease.
See pic 9.
Now with all new rubbers fitted it could be
fitted back onto the chassis. Before doing that I remembered an old modification that we used
to do back in the 1960’s and that was to drill a
small hole in the end of the hook where the
clutch cable hooks on. The idea of this is that,
when fitting, you hook the clutch cable over the
hook and then fit a small split pin through the
drilled hole. This stops the clutch cable slipping
off the hook whilst fitting. See pic 10. 11
Now I could fit the new dual circuit master cylinder and all of the new brake pipes. See pic 11.
I decided that, with a car of this age, it was a good idea to replace all brake components and so all flexible pipes were also replaced just to be on the safe side. See pic 12.
Well that’s it for this episode but on the next one there is big trouble with the front axle.
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