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Do you take the upright off the car to use the press like this 20 Ton Shop Press - Hydraulic Shop Presses on Sale or is your tool a threaded tool that works on the car like this FWD Front Wheel Bearing Adapters or ???

Regarding the front bearing, you may have to resort to taking it apart to see what number is stamped on the bearing parts. I think that is at least a reasonable job to do. In the case of the rear, that's not so easy since you need to press it apart.... but, we seem to know the part number at...

The thread I was thinking of is this one: http://www.gt40s.com/forum/superformance-gt40s/30710-adjusting-spf-wheel-bearings.html It spends a lot of time on discussing and indentifying and source of the seals on either side of the bearings. But along the way it does seem to identify the rear...

That's one of the few areas I have not taken apart. :lipsrsealed: There was a thread a long time ago about the stability of that adjustment and whether the rear upright and bearing arrangement was really a good idea (i.e. that it was imprecisely machined and adjustable, vs. using a precise...

Yes, not doing an annual (or so) fluid change could do them in.

Great news; glad it's getting explained and fixed. The only left over thing I'm wondering is why master cylinders are failing although your leaking symptom sounds different from Dave's no-bleed symptom. I'm assuming Wilwood has low-cost rebuild kits, so it might be interesting or worthwhile...

Ah! That changes the logic.... Now I understand much better your question about what side to put the cable on. And, which cylinder is front vs rear on my car would have no bearing on yours. Also, you've reminded me that the cylinder is connected to the hard lines by hose, and thus, at least...

Bubbles on one side but not the other is a very good theory. I attached mine to the right side of the shaft. I don't know if it will attach to the left. I doubt it because I think it would bend the cable too much. Here's a picture of mine, but that is all I remember. I haven't been "down in...

Dave -- At the near certainty of thread drift, I'm puzzled by this. Do you still have the original reservoir-to-cylinder hoses? I ask because a friend who did his own install said when he bled his clutch or brakes for the first time the fluid came out black. It later occurred to me his was...

Thanks for explaining that. That certainly seems like an extreme reaction to the problem of the adjuster loosening. I think a single 3/8-24" nut would be sufficient, or a pair of thin lock nuts. But the cockpit adjuster is the best solution of all, in my opinion, since the proper setting would...

Yes, 3/8-24" is a "standard" for brake bias adjuster thread. In fact, I noticed that Howe Racing, who make the bias mechanism in our cars, also make a couple cockpit bias adjusters, for example: Howe Racing Enterprises - Wilwood Knob Style Adjuster so if I were doing it over I would get theirs...

Oliver -- You don't need to unpin anything to turn the cross shaft (unless your car has pins mine doesn't). On my car I can spin it with my fingers. The only thing that should prevent it turning is the lock nut on the right end. The pins are there to hold everything else still while cross...

Oliver -- This old thread is about the lock nut Dave refers to. http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech-chassis-brakes-tires-wheels/23873-spf-gt-brake-bias-bar-lock.html Also another thread on the same subject that should help illustrate how the mechanism works...

That's absolutely great! I had begun to worry about Griffin because there was a lot of discussion when they got going a couple years back and then things went kind of quiet.

It's an interesting subject but I think your model is a little over-simplified. For example, "spring/damping rates" is not a single parameter; it is at minimum two. Even so, how in a mechanical context would you "control" spring rate? Also, although I'm not sure it matters at this point...

First, thanks much for the thorough report. Any sense of price, how many are out there, delivery time? Wonderful to have another FE in the works. Mine's mild (on purpose). 490 hp with a torque curve like Kansas. Re the length I had to hack up my SPF rear subframe a little to fit the...

Again....and for the last time. Start out by reading posts carefully, think before you respond, and then research Quaife and Olthoff and tell us what they said (for the third time). If you're not willing to talk to those people then you're not really in the market, you're just bench racing. Show...

700? Not sure how "common" that goal is......Is this going into an GT40? If so you might want to don your virtual fire suit. A guy a while back wanted to know how to get to 200 mph on a closed circuit and that conversation fell apart pretty fast. And then there was George who wanted to go...

Oops. Called that one wrong. It's a one way street after all.

"Civil War"??? I love it when obviously stressed people tell me to chill out. There's no big deal Sean. It just gets a little old doing other people's homework over and over. Internet technical forums are kind of like pot lucks. Anybody can show up, most people bring something, but...