tptailwheel
Registered User
vermillion sd
Your nails are too clean Steve.
Brake Boosters Required for Bushwheels?
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Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
Your nails are too clean Steve.
LOL, start of the day and my left hand. Back when I was attempting to go to college but spending too much time working on cars my Dad suggested A&P school. He said it would be a cleaner living than working on cars. He was right. Good hand cleaner helps as well.
S2D
MEMBER
Montana
That's funny, after fighting cubs with no parking brakes for years, I just figured that out a couple months ago.
cubpilot2
SPONSOR
Anchorage Alaska
So “hypothetically “ what high pressure system would you recommend for a cub that is in service and that has the under seat battery conversion?
Parking brake valves and high pressure hoses already installed.
Ease of installation, and having “few” operational concerns desired. (Hypothetically speaking of course)
Parking brake valves and high pressure hoses already installed.
Ease of installation, and having “few” operational concerns desired. (Hypothetically speaking of course)
Eddie Foy
MEMBER
South Florida
I have a Masters Degree and a PHd in Fighter Pilot and get my hands dirty most every day!
Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
But you got a degree, I wasn't that disciplined.
Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
On a flying airplane with good Scott frames I would say Steve's because it is pretty easy to install by just unscrewing the parts, no fabric cutting etc. I use NAS1352-08-8P socket head cap screws to install, way easier that regular screws.
RaisedByWolves
FRIEND
Tx
I love the Dakota cub masters. More involved to swap out, but they are great
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hotrod180
FRIEND
Port Townsend, WA
I top off the brake on my C180 from the bottom up --
for me, it's quicker & easier than crawling under the panel and fumbling around.
i top my north rivers or take some out which is very seldom needed with these.https://www.ebay.com/itm/X5-Small-1...=item239dc57944:g:w90AAOSwnsRaYVBD:rk:23:pf:0
Carey Gray
Registered User
Thun Field, Washington
What I don't like about filling from the bottom is that you have to be pretty careful not to squirt some air into the system and make things worse.
Don't you still have to get under the panel to take the plugs out of the master cylinders?
behindpropellers
Registered User
NE Ohio
I always vacuum mine from the top. No air bubbles.
Cessna masters are vented. If you don't toss a rag over the masters they'll pee straight up in the air like a baby boy when you pump from the bleeders.
Carey Gray
Registered User
Thun Field, Washington
Too funny. Now I have this visual...
Eddie Foy
MEMBER
South Florida
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MEMBER
South Florida
Eddie Foy
MEMBER
South Florida
Stright thread barb fittings are available.
Steve Pierce
BENEFACTOR
Graham, TX
These dam Cessna guys posting on a Super Cub site are making my head spin. 
Scott brakes use a straight thread, I made the fitting to bleed them. Cessna uses A tapered pipe thread.
Scott brakes use a straight thread, I made the fitting to bleed them. Cessna uses A tapered pipe thread.
hotrod180
FRIEND
Port Townsend, WA
My C180 master cylinders have plastic pipe plugs, with itty-bitty vent holes.
They don't really tighten up like a pipe thread should though, more like they bottom out.
I have an oil pump can full of 5606 fitted with some clear plastic tubing,
pretty easy to squeeze the bubbles out before attaching to the bleeder on the caliper.
I do remove the vent plugs, but other than usually dropping one into the bilge that isn't too bad--
it's trying to get the bleeder hose down into the master cylinder and pump some fluid in,
all while laying on my belly under the panel and fighting off a charley horse in my cramped-up arms that's the problem.
Hi Gordon,I see you have the original Scott brakes fitted.Can you offer any advice re changing diaphragms,and longevity of such.Thanks if you can help.
Gordon Misch
MEMBER
Toledo, Wa (KTDO)
I don't have any advice that might be considered sophisticated, but - - I've owned this plane for more than 45 years, and have changed diaphragms twice. Once because one ruptured on a short gravel bar. That was entertaining! Seems to me that they're good until they're not? Some of the mechanics here will have better, more detailed information for you.
cubdriver2
FRIEND
upstate NY
27 years of Cub flying and I have never blown one. If you keep them pumped up they hardly stretch at all, it's when you let the fluid get low that the diaphragm has to travel farther and gets weaker each time it has to stretch that far
Glenn
TirolCub
SPONSOR
Austria
I am using these bleeder valves on my Cub with Clevelands. Topping the Scott cylinders with fluid and thereafter bleeding the system is just easy with them ...
http://www.stahlbus.com/products/en/bleeding-system/index.php
http://www.stahlbus.com/products/en/bleeding-system/index.php
COLLEGE STATION, TX
Reopening this thread ( and hopefully not a can of worms) but North River Aviation versus Steve's Brake Boosters, which do you recommend and why? I feel like I am really stressing my Scott diaphragm master cylinders with the 29" Airstreaks trying to hold it for a runup and stopping is also not the best 
. Cleveland brakes.
. Cleveland brakes.Steve's and Dakota's are vented so more forgiving. You can add a vent to the North Rivers, too, and Skywagon8A has posted photos of how (he invented North Rivers so he knows better than anyone). I had standard non-vented North Rivers on my old -12 and they worked great. I'm not sure if Scooter still uses them? No matter, there are lots of them in use and that's definitely the easiest solution for adding high pressure to your current brake system.
