the hobbler
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I require some help please, probably from our Italian members of the Forum.
A colleague and I decided that as we were both planning to fit front brake discs to our 500s we would look at ways to upgrade the brake master-cylinder. We found a master-cylinder called a "Mini-servo brake master-cylinder". Externally the same dimensions, but producing 30% more braking effort. As it was a straight swap with the standard master-cylinder, this seemed a sensible route to take. We ordered, and received, the items along with the appropriate (or so we were told) brake light switch. Slight problem--the master cylinders don't work (they won't pressurise the brake system) and the brake-light switches don't fit! The supplier (a well known Italian company who don't normally deal outside Italy--I have Italian contacts) doesn't feel prepared to answer our correspondence, and the other companies who supply the same item (often under slightly different names, but in the pictures they all have exactly the same casting marks), aren't prepared to disclose either they supplier or the manufacturer--who we are assured is Italian.
The help that I require is this:---can any of our Italian Forum members find the name of either (a) the supplier and/or, (b) the manufacturer? Any help would be very much appreciated because at the moment both my colleague and I have expensive pieces of useless cast-iron sitting on our work benches--we are NOT amused!
A colleague and I decided that as we were both planning to fit front brake discs to our 500s we would look at ways to upgrade the brake master-cylinder. We found a master-cylinder called a "Mini-servo brake master-cylinder". Externally the same dimensions, but producing 30% more braking effort. As it was a straight swap with the standard master-cylinder, this seemed a sensible route to take. We ordered, and received, the items along with the appropriate (or so we were told) brake light switch. Slight problem--the master cylinders don't work (they won't pressurise the brake system) and the brake-light switches don't fit! The supplier (a well known Italian company who don't normally deal outside Italy--I have Italian contacts) doesn't feel prepared to answer our correspondence, and the other companies who supply the same item (often under slightly different names, but in the pictures they all have exactly the same casting marks), aren't prepared to disclose either they supplier or the manufacturer--who we are assured is Italian.
The help that I require is this:---can any of our Italian Forum members find the name of either (a) the supplier and/or, (b) the manufacturer? Any help would be very much appreciated because at the moment both my colleague and I have expensive pieces of useless cast-iron sitting on our work benches--we are NOT amused!