Morris Minor Owners Club

Hello all

I am restoring the rear brakes on a project Minor. As you will see in my other posts below, I am encountering problems.
This post concerns the steel plates that sits under the rear cylinders and are spot welded to the backplate. On both rear backplates, this plate has been removed. I gather that a previous owner has fitted non-standard slave cylinders (that look very similar to the correct items) and this required the removal of the plates.
Does anyone know whether this was a known modification back in the day?
I assume the plates are there to ensure that there is a flat, smooth surface for the cylinder to slide up and down on. I doubt that they are there for extra strength because they are pretty insubstantial and only welded with two spots.
I am proceeding on the basis that I will fabricate and weld in replacement plates followed by installation of correct slave cylinders. Any comments on this?

Don

Don
My understanding of the plates is that they were fitted to make up the correct thickness for the correct Minor wheel cylinder to operate/slide in. Without the plates the cylinder would be sloppy in the backplate. Other wheel cylinder may not require the plates to make up the required thickness. I do not know of a current or past modification but the additional plates may have been removed because the correct cylinders were not available at the time.
Phil

Thank you Phil for your info.

I have made a template to fabricate replacements that match the original parts.

Don