MrPoseidon Posted May 2, 2017 Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) I have the uprated brake kit on my Westy but the standard master brake cylinder,so after an uprated one (not sure of which one I require.). Cheers. Edited May 6, 2017 by MrPoseidon No longer required.
Terryathome Posted May 6, 2017 Posted May 6, 2017 On 2017-5-2 at 12:45, MrPoseidon said: I have the uprated brake kit on my Westy but the standard master brake cylinder,so after an uprated one (not sure of which one I require.). Cheers. You mention the AP one but these come in 2 sizes. So without knowing what brake setup you have it will be a bit hard to comment on what size you need. Have you looked through past posts re master cylinder size. Quite a few about and will give you ideas on what you should be considering prior to changing yours. It would also help if you told us why you want to change it in the first place.
MrPoseidon Posted May 6, 2017 Author Posted May 6, 2017 36 minutes ago, Terryathome said: You mention the AP one but these come in 2 sizes. So without knowing what brake setup you have it will be a bit hard to comment on what size you need. Have you looked through past posts re master cylinder size. Quite a few about and will give you ideas on what you should be considering prior to changing yours. It would also help if you told us why you want to change it in the first place. Hi Terryathome. Great advice but please bear with me as I'm a new owner. The problem I had was there wasn't much feel to the brakes and not much braking effect ( not sure of exactly which pads I have but they are the factory 2015 issued ones). I have read that the Westfield uprated 4 pots need to have had the uprated AP master cylinder which allegedly had a larger bore (from memory) of .70" instead of .60" (?) . So attributed my woes to that fact. At Stoneleigh I spoke to Mark from Westfield cars , and he confirmed that I should upgrade my brake cylinder but they no longer did them and offered up some heavy cast one instead. I then called them up the other day and spoke to someone else at Westfield, and they indicated that the master brake cylinder I have is the same as the AP one, bore size wise, and the only difference is the weight. After explaining my symptoms and issues with my brakes, he suggested loading up the pedal for 24hrs and lo and behold, my brakes are now tenfold better so I need to remove my WTB ad.
MrPoseidon Posted May 6, 2017 Author Posted May 6, 2017 16 hours ago, RussH said: Free bump. Top mount or bottom mount pedals? Hi Russ. They are bottom mount, all standard ,if there is such a thing, Westfeild factory issue 2016 !
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