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Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:14 amby Revvers
Hello all. I’ve bought an Oiltek hidden reservoir in order to give my front inboard disc brake a bit more oomph. The fitting instructions show fitment to an outboard one. Can you use it on an inboard and can someone explain how to do it please? I’m not mechanically gifted, but would like to try fitting it myself. Thank you
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:47 amby matthew
I assume your inboard disc has at some point had a hydraulic conversion?
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:02 pmby Revvers
No it hasn’t. Have I bought the wrong thing?
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:20 pmby matthew
I'm afraid so. The Oiltek hidden master cylinder / reservoir is for hydraulically operated braking systems. Your brake must be cable operated. A reverse pull cable conversion may improve your inboard front disc brake but alas the hydraulic reservoir will have no benefit.
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:24 pmby Revvers
Thanks Matthew. Appreciate that
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:41 pmby rossclark
You can get a pop in hydraulic slave cylinder that goes in the same hole as the cable actuator and is held in place by the circlip. Frankly they're a bit hit and miss it's better to get it converted properly for hydraulic operation if anyone still does it. MB maybe. But that is a one way process and you might think twice about doing that to an original brake.
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:41 amby dickie
You can buy the backplate with slave cylinder fitted on its own.
I think beedspeed do them for around £100.
Re: Oiltek hydraulic reservoir
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Thu Mar 26, 2020 9:10 amby HxPaul