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lighiche
03-10-2014, 08:58 AM
Anyone have an unused Timm Cooper Series Brake kit laying around they'd like to unload?
TeriAnn
03-11-2014, 08:39 AM
Anyone have an unused Timm Cooper Series Brake kit laying around they'd like to unload?

They seem to have been out of new kits for a while now. Not wanting to take sales away from them, if you can not find one of Timm's kits you can try Heystee Automotive (http://www.heystee-automotive.com/onlineshop/catalog/index.php?cPath=38). The kit that Paul Heystee developed also uses stock Defender calipers and rotors.
o2batsea
03-11-2014, 08:51 AM
I have heard that the ROAM kit is a dead pony. Maybe it will go back in production some day. I think Jonesy got the last one.
lighiche
03-11-2014, 11:48 AM
They seem to have been out of new kits for a while now. Not wanting to take sales away from them, if you can not find one of Timm's kits you can try Heystee Automotive (http://www.heystee-automotive.com/onlineshop/catalog/index.php?cPath=38). The kit that Paul Heystee developed also uses stock Defender calipers and rotors.

TeriAnn, I know you used Torrell industries' kit and I appreciate your excellent review of the build on your site. I think I read that you'd consider going with Heystee's product today, so with Timm Cooper's system seemingly off the table that may well be the way I go. Any suggestions for changing the master cylinder/brake pedal mechanism?

Thanks.
derek
03-11-2014, 12:51 PM
Another Timm Cooper kit is coming soon from a different vendor.
lighiche
03-11-2014, 01:23 PM
Another Timm Cooper kit is coming soon from a different vendor.

Any notion as to when, from where?
TeriAnn
03-11-2014, 11:54 PM
TeriAnn, I know you used Torrell industries' kit and I appreciate your excellent review of the build on your site. I think I read that you'd consider going with Heystee's product today, so with Timm Cooper's system seemingly off the table that may well be the way I go. Any suggestions for changing the master cylinder/brake pedal mechanism?

You evidently missed my draft page on this subject:

http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/dual_brake_conv.htm
lighiche
03-12-2014, 10:53 AM
You evidently missed my draft page on this subject:

http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/dual_brake_conv.htm

Forgive me.
TeriAnn
03-12-2014, 12:10 PM
Forgive me.

That's OK . I mainly wrote all those 200 or so pages just to have something to do and keep myself entertained. I have a poor memory so it helps me remember how to do something next time it needs doing.

Bottom line is I recommend a SIII brake pedestal, Santana brake booster, and early One Ten master brake cylinder for a front disc brake dual brake system conversion.

If you are adventurous you can go to a pre 1990 Defender pedestal and type 50 servo.

If you are really adventurous, have a deluxe bonnet and don't mind cutting clearance slots to the very edge you can go with a pre 1990 type 80 servo and pedestal or a US spec non-ABS Defender pedestal & servo. You just need to be sure that you match the servo with the pedestal.

A lot depends upon how much brake you want for the pedal effort, how much work you are willing to do and how adventurous you are at cutting body panels.
o2batsea
03-12-2014, 03:36 PM
If you are really adventurous, have a deluxe bonnet and don't mind cutting clearance slots to the very edge you can go with a pre 1990 type 80 servo and pedestal or a US spec non-ABS Defender pedestal & servo. You just need to be sure that you match the servo with the pedestal.
Absolutely do not even try that. So wrong.
TeriAnn
03-12-2014, 06:01 PM
Absolutely do not even try that. So wrong.

some folks do just that:

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It is not my call to say right or wrong, just to document what is possible and what has been done so people can make their own decisions.
o2batsea
03-12-2014, 06:42 PM
It is not my call to say right or wrong, just to document what is possible and what has been done so people can make their own decisions.
Just cz it can be done doesn't mean you should do it....

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TeriAnn
03-13-2014, 09:39 AM
Just cz it can be done doesn't mean you should do it....

9492

I really like this colour of pink. If I hadn't named my truck "The Green Rover" back in '78 It might be that colour today. I've been temped to paint it pink a few times. I settled for painting the Salisbury diff cover pink and the truck body British racing green.

But that really is a lovely shade of pink. :rolleyes:
rbbailey
03-30-2014, 02:56 PM
Another Timm Cooper kit is coming soon from a different vendor.

I actually ran into Timm about 9 months ago, and he confirmed this to me. I don't have any inside info other than that.
S11A
03-31-2014, 06:34 PM
Who made the kit that our hosts used to sell?
rbbailey
05-15-2014, 09:08 PM
Looks like Timm Cooper is producing the kits again!

http://forbynbros.com/

I happened to run into him in a parking lot a year or so ago, and he told me this would be happening. Glad to see it coming true!
morgant
05-16-2014, 06:59 AM
Looks like Timm Cooper is producing the kits again!

http://forbynbros.com/

I happened to run into him in a parking lot a year or so ago, and he told me this would be happening. Glad to see it coming true!

Aha! Thank you!

After the ROAM OFF-ROAD site went offline early this year, I've been searching for word of what was happening to his kits. I had found a thread on Expedition Portal that noted he business was going to be reorganized, but I hadn't found any more info.

Update: this is the ExPo thread I was thinking of (http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/124718-Roam-offroad?p=1585559#post1585559) and Greg Forbyn has since chimed in to explain that they consulted with Tim to design their disc conversion kits and what the difference between theirs and ROAM OFFROAD's are.