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| Author: | milano [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re mk 2 brake booster vh44 what colour, |
Original colour ,was it silver or light gold in colour, cad plating ? & best place to buy a kit.thanks |
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| Author: | winabbey [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
Light gold for the VH44. Silver for the earlier Lockheed unit. Photo below of a nicely restored MK II Cooper S engine bay showing the booster. Attachment: Enginecomplete003.jpg
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| Author: | Bill B [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
I don't have any unrestored VH44 but I think they were silver zinc. All my rebuilt ones are in silver zinc to be as close as possible to the originals. I remember the PBR ones looked different from the Mk1 Lockheeds. |
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| Author: | Firefirey [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
winabbey wrote: Light gold for the VH44. Silver for the earlier Lockheed unit. Photo below of a nicely restored MK II Cooper S engine bay showing the booster. Attachment: Enginecomplete003.jpg Thanks for that photo Winabbey  It answers a couple of questions I had. Could you advise the year or body number of the photoed Cooper S? Cheers. |
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| Author: | miniron [ Tue Nov 21, 2017 9:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
The MK1 Lockheed boosters came in 2 different colours/treatments. Early ones were finished in a silver blue colour and later ones were in a light gold colour. I don't know when the change occurred but a 66 build date Mk1 S I had new was in the silver blue finish and my current 68 build had the light gold finish. I recently had this booster rebuilt and even after telling the repairer that I wanted the light gold colour finish it came back in the silver blue colour. Not impressed one little bit! RonR |
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| Author: | winabbey [ Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
Firefirey wrote: Could you advise the year or body number of the photoed Cooper S? Cheers. Pretty sure it is a mid-1970 model. Very nice restoration done by a guy down here in Melbourne. |
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| Author: | Sports850man [ Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
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| Author: | milano [ Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
Thanks fellas,looks like gold, with a possible silver -blue dependt on year. Milano. |
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| Author: | winabbey [ Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: VH44 Brake Booster - what colour? |
The PBR VH44 replaced the Lockheed booster on the MK II Cooper S at car YG2S4-1614 in March 1970. If anyone has a colour photo of an original engine bay around that time it would help answer the colour question. My understanding is all VH44's were gold passivated, but happy to be corrected. |
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