Today was a collection of setbacks. I tried turning the new brake pedal upside down because the pin was off center and it is in a much better spot now. I will need to make a new backing plate because it is a trapezoid, but that shouldn't be too bad.
The real problem was when I went to do the hard lines on the rear axle. I had welded on mount for the soft lines while the axle was out. Unfortunately I just realized I did so with the calipers reversed. Closer inspection shows the bleeder screws on the bottom.
Oops.
Moving the calipers to the correct sides wasn't a big deal, but after spending both of my hours of daylight fighting with some combination of swapping/rotating the soft lines, I came to the conclusion that the existing soft line mounts just plain are not going to work. Now I am debating between pulling the axle out again, cutting the mounts off, and making new ones vs getting a set of custom soft lines made that will go directly from the caliper to the distribution block.
I have been explictily building this project with the intention that all the wear (or easy to damage) parts would be available off the shelf at a FLAPS. Doing custom soft lines violates that principle, but I *really* don't want to pull the axle again at this stage. I dunno.
I did get a nearly textbook example of catastrophic shear propagation on my impact shaft. The nick is clearly visible on both pieces and the way it radiated out from the failure is very clean.
Last edited by Fibonachu; 11/01/20232:25 AM. Reason: Clarify that the issue is with the soft line mounts, not the caliper mounts.
