Thread: Introducing Matilda

Originally Posted by Cannon

Yes, those ones would be ideal but I think they're like hen's teeth.

I did look online at getting some from the UK. Non-genuine items were not too expensive, but at the time I could only get them for one side so I just made some from aluminium. Little right-angled jobbies which clamp between the bolt-head and the hinge and stick out enough to have room to accept the mirror arm and nut and washers.

Originally Posted by Cannon

Recently I had the brake lines for the booster made up so yesterday I dodged and weaved my responsibilities re getting TGC to her training for softball & fitted the lines & bled the brakes.

Are your new brake pipes copper? If so, I thought they had to be steel. Copper hardens and cracks. I have had a copper brake pipe crack and split once, on a single circuit car, and it is not nice! Steel brake tube is cheap and easy to work with anyway.

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Maybe get some of these hinges if its s2a. I spied these on a doormobile s2 ⤵. If you find some i would like a pair as well😆😆

Cheers Rod

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I see John Craddock has L/H ones part no 346377 but could not see any R /H ones , you could contact them & ask

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Are your new brake pipes copper? If so, I thought they had to be steel. Copper hardens and cracks. I have had a copper brake pipe crack and split once, on a single circuit car, and it is not nice! Steel brake tube is cheap and easy to work with anyway.

They are copper coated steel. Perfectly legal in Australia. That's the pipe that came with the booster kit. Not quite enough to do both runs so had to buy the silver stuff.

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Is this the sort of bracket?

Yes, but for security and rigidity it needs to engage both bolts, and probably be more rigid than that looks.

John

Originally Posted by Cannon

Is this the sort of bracket?

Yes and no. The ones I made are t'other way around, as it were. They are rotated 180 deg from the way you have them, so that the flat surface rests on top of the original hinge. Having a small rubber bushing between it and the hinge damps vibration (which is good, because I made mine out of slightly lighter aluminium than I wanted to).

I will fish out a photo when I can.

I hope this helps.

Here you go. I made mine out of lighter aluminium than planned (just used what I had to hand on the day I decided to whack the mirrors on), and always thought of this quick installation as a stop-gap until I fitted something heavier. But I've found that they hardly vibrate anyway, due to being tightly damped on the hinge itself, so it is hardly a priority job to make heavier brackets. Maybe one day....