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Re: Brake Fluid Loss

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Subject: Re: Brake Fluid Loss
From: "James D. Howard II" <jhoward@argus.lowell.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:20:02 -0700 (MST)
> 
> The brake servo was offered as an optional extra in the UK before '74.  A '70 
> BGT I had many years ago didn't have one.  It's a remote servo unit (only 
> hydraulically connected to the master cylinder), fitted at the back of the 
> engine bay on the opposite side to the master cylinders, same side as the 
> carburettors, that's the left side in my RHD car.  I would have thought that 
> LHD cars would have had the equivalent space on the right side, or did they 
> put something else there?
> 

They had a windscreen washer fluid reservoir there until 68, when they
put the charcoal canister for the fuel tank evaporative loss system
there.  At least that is what they did for the USA models.

James Howard            argus.lowell.edu
59 MGA Twin Cam (needs engine)
67 MGB/GT (my daily driver)
72 MGB (for fun in the sun)
72 Land Rover 88 (my other daily driver)
  

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