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« on: February 01, 2008, 02:50:26 PM »
I have up front brake master cylinders based on the Debbie Iwatate sytem
which when hooked up to Grove wheels,brake calipers and discs give excellent braking. I lost a right brake after a heavy landing at Mojave, I think I went thru. wind shear, those desert winds can do strange things. I wasn't so lucky as you, I went off the left side of the runway and collected a large landing light.The first car on the scene brought Dick Rutan who was waiting to fly the X-Cor Rocket EZ to California City for the world record for distance for a rocket powered aircraft, later he did just that.The damage was a wrecked wheel pant and a bill from Kern County for a new landing light.The brake line had failed at the caliper, I have now replaced those plastic lines with a 5"" length of Stratoflex from the caliper to where the line goes into the gear leg. Mike Melville wrote a CP on replacing Nyloseal/ Nyloflex with Stratoflex for the entire system.The plastic lines suffer from U.V. degradation and need to be replaced every 5 years.
Easyrider
LongEZ 93EZ