I have honed and repacked a lot of aluminum slave cylinders with no
prolem, including the clutch slave and two rear brake slaves that
have been in service on my MGA since 1986 (238,000 miles), having
been rebukt a couple of times by now.
I have never known an aluminum slave cylinder to be anodized. If it
was anodized it most likely could not be honed, aa the aluminum oxide
coating woud be as hard as a grinding stone.
At 02:31 PM 6/26/2011 -0400, Richard Ewald wrote:
>If it Is an aluminum cylinder do not hone it. Either replace it or
>sleeve it.. Aluminum cylinders are anodized to prevent
>corrosion. If you hone the anodizing off the life expectancy of the
>"rebuilt" cylinder is measured in weeks, months if you are very lucky.
>....
>On Jun 26, 2011, at 13:29, Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com> wrote:
> > If you suspect a slave cylinder problem, it bears disassembly for
> inspection. A simple honing operation and a repacking kit can be
> easy and cheaper than a new slave cylinder assembly.
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