The help work out how much space the cylinders needed I had to work out how much "movement" the cylinder needed..
So a quick bit of brake pluming one side, followed by quite a lot of bleeding the air out of a fluid free system..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS675.jpg)
"New lesson Danielson"... Brake on..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS677.jpg)
Brake off ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS676.jpg)
Lot's of time was spent working out the brake steering levers..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS681.jpg)
And trying to find space behind the dash panel to install it.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS685.jpg)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS684.jpg)
But alas the space was too limited![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png)
By that point in the day I'd had had enough of trying to work it out, but while I was sitting down drinking the last cuppa in the shack for the day I looked into the back of the dash and had a bit of a brain wave..
I was looking at the back of the switch and the empty switch hole!!
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS682.jpg)
The next day started with a dig though the "might come in handy one day" box and some treasures were unearthed..
A couple of Westwood ride on mower axles and a couple of "cut off" Westwood wheel centers which are a nice fit on the axles but still slide up and down.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS689.jpg)
Cut one of the wheel centers in half and add a handle (or pen) and Hey-presto one sliding steering brake lever ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS691.jpg)
So, under the drill the dash panel went for lot's of chain drilling.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS693.jpg)
And after a lot of hole filing both brake slider thingys fitted.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS694.jpg)
From the front.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS695.jpg)
Having worked out how to make the slider brake thingys and worked out how to fit them through the dash, I now needed to work out a way of mounting them..
As luck would have it while digging through the "box of bits" looking for the slider bit's, I noticed a length of 3 sided box..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS700.jpg)
Which was just the right size to hold the sliders with a little clamp action..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS699.jpg)
Que a bit of welding..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS704.jpg)
And some tidying work with the grinder
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS705.jpg)
And via the medium of a slightly blurry photo the sliders take shape.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS714.jpg)
Some plates were cut to strengthen the sliders each side.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS728.jpg)
Welded on.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS729.jpg)
To help keep the sliders/dash from moving under the stain of steering some legs were needed.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS713.jpg)
I struck lucky when it came to mounting the legs, as there are holes in just the right place on the chassis.
Cut a section out of an old mower (Mountfield I think) dash..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS715.jpg)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS716.jpg)
Measure, trim and weld on a threaded stud..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS717.jpg)
Ta-Daa![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS718.jpg)
That's looking a lot stronger now ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS735.jpg)
So a quick bit of brake pluming one side, followed by quite a lot of bleeding the air out of a fluid free system..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS675.jpg)
"New lesson Danielson"... Brake on..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS677.jpg)
Brake off ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS676.jpg)
Lot's of time was spent working out the brake steering levers..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS681.jpg)
And trying to find space behind the dash panel to install it.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS685.jpg)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS684.jpg)
But alas the space was too limited
![::)](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png)
By that point in the day I'd had had enough of trying to work it out, but while I was sitting down drinking the last cuppa in the shack for the day I looked into the back of the dash and had a bit of a brain wave..
I was looking at the back of the switch and the empty switch hole!!
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS682.jpg)
The next day started with a dig though the "might come in handy one day" box and some treasures were unearthed..
A couple of Westwood ride on mower axles and a couple of "cut off" Westwood wheel centers which are a nice fit on the axles but still slide up and down.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS689.jpg)
Cut one of the wheel centers in half and add a handle (or pen) and Hey-presto one sliding steering brake lever ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS691.jpg)
So, under the drill the dash panel went for lot's of chain drilling.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS693.jpg)
And after a lot of hole filing both brake slider thingys fitted.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS694.jpg)
From the front.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS695.jpg)
Having worked out how to make the slider brake thingys and worked out how to fit them through the dash, I now needed to work out a way of mounting them..
As luck would have it while digging through the "box of bits" looking for the slider bit's, I noticed a length of 3 sided box..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS700.jpg)
Which was just the right size to hold the sliders with a little clamp action..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS699.jpg)
Que a bit of welding..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS704.jpg)
And some tidying work with the grinder
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS705.jpg)
And via the medium of a slightly blurry photo the sliders take shape.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS714.jpg)
Some plates were cut to strengthen the sliders each side.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS728.jpg)
Welded on.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS729.jpg)
To help keep the sliders/dash from moving under the stain of steering some legs were needed.
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS713.jpg)
I struck lucky when it came to mounting the legs, as there are holes in just the right place on the chassis.
Cut a section out of an old mower (Mountfield I think) dash..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS715.jpg)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS716.jpg)
Measure, trim and weld on a threaded stud..
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS717.jpg)
Ta-Daa
![:D](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS718.jpg)
That's looking a lot stronger now ;D
![](http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc140/Stigian/The%20Stig%20Special%203/TSS735.jpg)