Brake Pedal Travel - Panhard Rod Length

[Mike Allfrey]

Thanks Keith,

I was about to use the PayPal system with the JCC, but we accepted the JCS information as a challenge! Kept some staff members in our bank's branch properly employed for a good spell.
Note the piece below, it came from Part 34 of my technical notes:

"Inside the cylinder, there can be two types of air excluder (Item 1242). The early type was an aluminium pressing and the later version was a plastic moulding. It has been known, for the plastic type, if fitted into an early style cylinder body, to restrict the brake shoe return travel."

In the Jupiter, the wheel cylinders on the right-hand side were early type, with metal dust shrouds, but with black plastic air excluders, so, now we know.

Attended a Rover club meeting this evening and it seems that the wheel cylinders supplied by JCS are from a Land Rover County model.

One word of warning, the wheel cylinder stud holes in the backplate had to be drilled out to 9/32-in. diameter so that the ports for hose and pipework could fit through the opening in the backplate. I think the stud holes had closed in over the many years that the cylinders have been in place.

Onwards tomorrow,

Mike A.