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Re: Brake master cyl rebuild

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Subject: Re: Brake master cyl rebuild
From: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:28:13 -0400
I haven't done this on my '73 Bs, but I did it last summer on my '76B - and
I can't even remember exactly how.  There were moments when I was almost
sure I would have to take the box out.  ' Think I had to drop the pedals
out, and there were some bolts/nuts which I could only get out from below,
lying in the footwell, reaching up through the opening.  It was hard enough
getting the M/Cs out (I replaced the clutch M/C while I was at it - ' don't
want to go there again any time soon).  Getting it all back together was
harder yet).  The layout of the box in the '76 B is quite different from
that on a pre-booster car.

I went the expensive route and bought a new M/C.  ' Got talked into it by a
local "expert" - in order to switch to DOT 5 - which was a big mistake!
But that's another story...

Allen

>From: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
>
>Paul,
>  I took the entire box out with it, undoing the bolts from the underside
>of the dash and the back of the firewall, then separating the MC from the
>box when they were on the bench.
>Bob
>
>
>On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 01:36:06 -0500 "wizardz" <wizardz@toad.net> writes:
>> man oh man... what a job.
>> Done 'em in the past, figured maybe an hour or two (including
>> a little clean up of the fire wall behind them)
>> Turned into a 7 hour job.
>>
>> QUESTION: How did any of you in the past, get the cyl. out of the
>> box and
>> out of the car when it's buried in that little cubby hole? ('73 BGT)

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