Who owns a Contemporary?

[bmalone]

Zimmy, if I had seen your post earlier, I would have been able to get some good pics of the slave cylinder setup on my car. I rebuilt it today. It was leaking and I was picking up free-play in the pedal.

Anyway, it is a Girling aluminum unit mounted to an aluminum bracket (two bolts). You can actually find this unit at NAPA (#26 in the pictures in the Brake Catalog, slave cylinder section). They wanted $200, so I went for the rebuild kit instead.

Like Cranky I have had a fire due to boiled brake fluid. My master cylinders are also directly under the fender well. There is a kit for Contemporaries that serves as a heat shield. Kind of fits right in the open space. I will be buying one at some point.

The lines from the MC run close to the header and then down to the slave, which, as I as I said is mounted to a custom aluminum bracket. The slave actually sits on top of the frame rail. The metal line stops 12" short of the slave and a nice flexible steel hose is used to make the connection to the slave.

The other end of the slave is a threaded rod except the part which fits into the cup, which pushes the piston. The threaded rod has a nut, a jam nut, and a nice little bushing that the rod goes through and fits into the throw-out arm. The rod goes through the bushing and comes out on the other side of the throw-out arm. So adjustments are made by locating the nuts at some point on the rod and tightening the jam nut.

HTH