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TimCV
2CV Fan
Joined: September 7th, 2009, 5:21 pm
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 Re: my turquoise 2CV6  Did you build this semi-recumbent also? Great pics of your rebuild, enjoyed looking!
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| May 6th, 2012, 12:48 am |
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Saurus
Firing on two.
Joined: March 25th, 2012, 6:11 pm
Posts: 165
Location: Lodz, Poland
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 It's not a semi-recumbent, and no, I just built the bars and stem on this one. Although, I did of course put it together myself. Bikes are where my tinkering started. And at a point, bikes just got a bit too easy 
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| May 6th, 2012, 4:00 pm |
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banjo
Firing on two.
Joined: June 5th, 2009, 9:17 am
Posts: 747
Location: Staffs & France
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 ken wrote: Saurus, 'grabbing' brakes mean that their initial response is too fierce, so instead of the braking effort being proportional to the pressure you've put on the brake pedal, it's high even with light pressure and can cause skidding of the rear wheels. For that reason, the leading shoe usually has the lining displaced away from the slave cylinder in the direction of rotation, which limits the amount of the 'self-servo' affect on it. The trailing shoe does not self-servo, so it will have its lining moved closer to the cylinder, or maybe even have a full length lining. http://www.engineeringinspiration.co.uk/drumbrakes.htmlken Saurus wrote: @Ken
What do you mean by "grab"? Not releasing immediately? I have not noticed anything like that, but I might have missed that, since the rear shoes are set rather tight and rubbing quite a bit to wear them in, because in the beginning I had excessive free play in the brake and that turned out to be because of too large shoe clearances & flexing under load.
Might have to reverse those. Does anyone ease the the leading edge of their brake shoes,it's an old trick that we used on motorcycle twin leading shoe brakes.I still do it old habits die hard,even on single leading shoe drum brakes. 
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| May 6th, 2012, 6:34 pm |
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Saurus
Firing on two.
Joined: March 25th, 2012, 6:11 pm
Posts: 165
Location: Lodz, Poland
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 My 2CV at a local classic car rally. 8th place out of 27 in general, 3rd in sport runs (against mustangs and whatnot  ), 1st in one of those which was a slalom time trial   Pictures are here http://classiccarslodz.pl/index.php/nas ... el-relacja and here http://classiccarslodz.pl/index.php/odw ... el-galeria if anyone's interested
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| May 17th, 2012, 6:32 pm |
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Saurus
Firing on two.
Joined: March 25th, 2012, 6:11 pm
Posts: 165
Location: Lodz, Poland
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6
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samfieldhouse
Firing on two.
Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
Posts: 3324
Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 They look great! I love the central divide. The bungey cord is such a great idea - and yet so obvious! Why have I never thought of this?!
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| September 18th, 2012, 4:33 pm |
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J-dub
Aircooled Idiot
Joined: April 24th, 2010, 10:01 am
Posts: 5733
Location: Location Location
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 Very neat idea
However dependant on the quality of the shock cord it wil not last forevery but im sure itll be fine
Did you use 'marine' shock cord? Marlow shock cord from your local chandlery isnthe best stuff, 7 mm i believe that is?
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samfieldhouse
Firing on two.
Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
Posts: 3324
Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 Are there many chandleries in central Poland James? Given that Saurus is 4 hours drive from the coast...
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| September 18th, 2012, 4:57 pm |
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Rhythm Thief
Firing on two.
Joined: March 10th, 2010, 12:37 am
Posts: 1927
Location: Alone in my polytunnel with my pitiful competition onions
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 samfieldhouse wrote: Are there many chandleries in central Poland James? Given that Saurus is 4 hours drive from the coast... That's what the internet is for ...
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| September 18th, 2012, 5:12 pm |
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Saurus
Firing on two.
Joined: March 25th, 2012, 6:11 pm
Posts: 165
Location: Lodz, Poland
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Re: my turquoise 2CV6 Jameswallace wrote: Very neat idea
However dependant on the quality of the shock cord it wil not last forevery but im sure itll be fine
Did you use 'marine' shock cord? Marlow shock cord from your local chandlery isnthe best stuff, 7 mm i believe that is? It's an 8 mm cord, it's quite a lot less elastic than I expected, this is why the sections are approx. as long as the original rubbers. It's seems plenty strong, unlike some very elastic ones I've seen.
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| September 18th, 2012, 5:17 pm |
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