Modern shoes don’t start out life perfectly mated to your drums, and so the new shoes start-out with small contact patches until you them wear in. Wheel cylinders leak and soil shoes three. Rear axle seals leak and soil shoes (the dark patches are gear oil on the shoes shown at left, on the other side of the same car, new seal and shoes needed here). if not much happens, your rear shoes are not doing their job. Pull the handbrake on your Sprite while you are rolling to a stop (in a safe place, please). But non-working drums is the real problem. That’s what gives drum brakes a bad name.
#Bugeye sprite master cylinder plus#
From experience with 200 plus Bugeyes, a shocking percentage has arrived in our building with wet or otherwise non- functioning rear brakes. Rear brakes on Sprites are super-simple, but they are almost never working properly. As a result, the adjuster happily cut a major groove in the drum as shown below. Instead, this one was assembled with the flat side of the shoe on the adjuster, which allowed the adjuster to squirt outward into the drum. This adjuster is meant to sit in a groove on the bottom of the brake shoe. Look closely at the brake adjuster at the bottom of the picture above (if you are unfamiliar, it’s the slotted screw in the u shaped bracket sitting on top of the wheel cylinder). Additional underside photos are provided in the gallery below.Here’s one we had not seen before, but it is worth highlighting so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.
#Bugeye sprite master cylinder manual#
Power is sent to the rear wheels through a four-speed manual transmission, which intermittently pops out of reverse gear. A new radiator with an electric cooling fan was installed within the last year, while an oil change was performed in preparation for the sale. The 1,275cc inline-four was installed under previous ownership and features twin SU carburetors. The five-digit odometer shows 15k miles, with total mileage unknown. Smiths instrumentation consists of a 100-mph speedometer and a tachometer as well as gauges for fuel level, oil pressure, and coolant temperature. Equipment includes lap belts for both occupants, a chrome passenger grab handle, storage pockets in the doors, and a Blaupunkt cassette stereo. The cockpit features bucket seats upholstered in black vinyl with white piping as well as matching door trim and carpets. Service in the last year reportedly included replacement of the brake master and rear wheel cylinders.
Braking is from front discs and rear drums. Painted 13″ steel wheels wear chrome hubcaps and new Firestone F-560 tires. Equipment includes fender-mounted bullet mirrors, rear bumperettes, a black soft top, and a matching tonneau cover. The car is said to have been repainted in its current white sometime between 1992-1995. This Bugeye was acquired by the selling dealer in 2021 and is now offered with several service records, club newsletters, and a clean Pennsylvania title.
Service performed over the last year is said to have included replacement of the brake master cylinder, rear wheel cylinders, and radiator. The car features a four-speed manual transmission, 13″ steel wheels with chrome hubcaps, a tonneau cover, a Blaupunkt cassette stereo, front disc brakes, and fender mirrors. This 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite is said to have spent at least 40 years in Pennsylvania and was reportedly the subject of a 1990s refurbishment that included installation of a replacement 1,275cc inline-four as well as a repaint in white and reupholstery of the interior in black.
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