MadaboutKitcars

The pedals in my Scimi are bent and flexi. There is no brake servo unit. The copper brake lines are largely missing.

I need to replace the lot. I am going to the scrap yard to look what I can salvage.

Can I just nick the pedals and servos out of something else and 'glue' them back in to the Scimi?
Anything to watch out for?
Any recommendations for a cleverer way to do this?

I guess once the servo unit is secured I can just run the pipes around the chassis as required.

Servo?

WCA



Not all Scims had servo's. The standard brakes are plenty good enough on a scim, you can easily lock the wheels on a dry road without a servo, you just need to push harder!!.
Check to see if your have girling (read expensive, same as jag) or lockheed calipers.
The se5 only had single line remote servo, it was until the se6 that dual circuit brakes integral to the master became available.
The lockheed servos are still available, but the girling servo are extinct!

Dan

I got some time to play today although most was spent talking with the guy at Nical engineering I bought the Scimitar from.

We managed to get the pedals moving properly so they are now all cleaned up and moving smoothly. I just need the springs for the accelerator and the clutch pedal.

The brake and clutch cylinders are both shot so replacements on order.

There is a remote servo which is Girling so we are checking if there is a rebuild kit and if so Nical will be rebuilding what I have got. If not, he reckons he can 'adjust' a Lockheed to work instead.

Then it is just running the brake pipes around the chassis, three flexies and check the calipers. The one front one I have looked at appears to have sticky pistons but tomorrow I will have a go at them.

Not too much achieved but great weather to be blasting around with the roof down in the TVR. Chatting with Nick at Nical was interesting too. He has just bought three Rover P5s and enough spare panels, engines, bits to make another few. I can pass on his details if anyone likes Rover P5s