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I'm with Harv. Stainless steel sleeves for me.

The Chinese & Indian made new cylinders are quite often very poor quality. If the car sits around they corrode very quickly.

All my oldies have re-sleeved cylinders throughout & I have no dramas at all.

I have heard of re-sleeved cylinders leaking, but that would down to the skill of the tradesman doing the machining. I've never had one leak myself.

Dr Terry

A lesson I learned from Ardiesse - if it’s not a daily, then sleeve it. The cast iron ones, even new, don’t like sitting around, and form a light rust ring at the cup. They then leak - repairable by hone, but annoying.

I did the brakes in Grace’s ute, and took in all four to be sleeved. 6 months later they were leaking again. Pulled them, and found no sleeves. Brake shop apologised - they figured giving me new cylinders would be easier than sleeving. They then sleeved the new ones they had supplied - no more leaks.

Cheers,
Harv

I have had lots of trouble with resleeved brake cylinders, mostly leakage between the cyl body and sleeve. I will only use new theses days. Fraze

Thanks Fraze,
Great to hear, I'll shell out for some new ones so at least I am starting with a known quality.

Cheers
Craig

I have had lots of trouble with resleeved brake cylinders, mostly leakage between the cyl body and sleeve. I will only use new theses days. Fraze

Can’t comment on the new wheel cylinders really Craig. Others will probably say they have found them to be ok.


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When I did it it was $80 per corner so price was comparable. I was suspicious of the quality of the new parts and sleeping offered a long life solution. In retrospect the process was somewhat fraught, taking several attempts to get right. At the time I put that down to the particular supplier but subsequently learned that the process is rather tricky.


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So I take it from your reply, even though the stainless sleeve will not corrode as much over its lifetime, that you don't see a significant long term benefit of one over the other; providing the new ones are maintained.

Regards
Craig

Just had a thought on the SUs. Will there be enough room for air cleaners or will I need to use a trumpet and a sock? Air cleaner cover may have fallen over at the first hurdle.

If that is the case I will make them for the twin strommies.

Hi Team,

I have finally made a decision on the cerbies for the ute project. I am going to run with the triple SUs. It won't make any difference to me initially as she will be registered as a daily driver initially. I am also thinking a little bit past the mechanical side of the house and into the presentation of the old girl under the bonnet.

My plan at this stage is to repaint the engine bay back to its original black (late 59 Model). I have sourced an alloy rocker cover and will be also running an AC oil filter.

To introduce a bit of character I'm thinking of converting a set of old hub caps I have into air cleaner covers for the tiples with the GMH lion and red background as contrast against the black background to match the engine bay and the outer rims providing the shiny bits.

I don't see any issue with cutting the middle sctions of the hub caps out, pretty easy job to the polish and paint it up.

Has anyone done a "hub cap" air cleaner for SUs? If so what did you use as the base aircleaner and how did you go about attach the hub cap centre?

Cheers n Beers
Craig

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When I did it it was $80 per corner so price was comparable. I was suspicious of the quality of the new parts and sleeping offered a long life solution. In retrospect the process was somewhat fraught, taking several attempts to get right. At the time I put that down to the particular supplier but subsequently learned that the process is rather tricky.


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