Thread: Brake Access

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I just noticed that the 32 Ford I just bought and the guy finished about 6 months ago, does not have access to the brake fluid. It is a glass body and the brake canister is under the car on the drivers side. Shouldn't he have made an access door in the floor of the coupe to check the fluid?

It is an American Rails frame.

How much room is there between the floor and the lid? Some guys prefer to do a contortionist act every now and then, rather than cut a hole in the floor. Rodding is all compromises!

With a glass body, you may have plywood, plywood between glass or just a glass floor. Any access will be hole sawed - and that hole can be a single big one or two smaller holes with or without the material between them jig sawed out. A cover can be made out of steel or aluminum. Then there is the choice of a remote fill. While my body is steel, the body cross member interferes with opening the MC - and I did drill a hole, but I couldn't get the @#$% cover off.

This is what mine looks like. I had to add an aluminum mounting plate and use a different fitting but it works well

If you have a dual master cylinder with the wire type hold downs make sure the hole is big enough for you to get your hand in so you can flip the hold downs and remove the cover. Just use a piece of sheet metal as a cover for the floorboard hole.

I was faced with the same problem and I went with a remote filler from kugel komponents. Very nice product.

IC2 and HotRodTrux, what kind of M/C's are you running?

Terrific locations on mounting the remote reservoirs on both cars.

At least the firewall recess will be somewhat useful in my 31 roadster.


Been thinking of making a remote filler.
Somewhat like the one in the pic, but shorter.




It looks like it will be easy to split a single reservoir into two separate ones inside.

A couple of broached keyways 180* apart, a piece of flat sheet metal and a little JB Weld would do it.

Granted, I could leave it as a single chamber, but thought it would be handy to monitor the M/C reservoirs individually.

The master cylinder is a 4 wheel disc common Corvette and the remote fill is by A Plus Rod and Custom out of Indiana. The remote has a common fill in the MC cap. SSBC have a nice one as well but the cover was too high.

If you do make your own remote, don't forget that you will need an expansion diaphragm in its' cover. They missed mine but sent it to me a year or so later when I asked them why it didn't have one.

As you can see, the recess for my car is "busy" Trans dipstick, MSD 6A and the remote filler plus the air cleaner tucks under there as well

My master cylinder is also the common Corvette style with brake line ports on either side.