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Re: More master cylinder stuff

To: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@icx.net>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: More master cylinder stuff
From: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:09:32 -0500
Reply-to: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Hi, Adrian!
Not much encouraging word here.  I have opened up a bunch of master
cylinders, and I have never been able to work one out per the manual.  I
usually end up chiseling the nylon bearing out with an icepick, but even
that ain't easy.  That nylon is tough stuff!  I think the manual procedure
was written for a new cylinder and a new bearing, not one that had seen 30
years of operation and corrosion.

Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G  "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt"  -- Mark Twain


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> From: J. Adrian Barnes <adrian@icx.net>
> To: Spridgets <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
> Subject: More master cylinder stuff
> Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 6:06 PM
> 
> I am taking the brake master cylinder (1500 midget) apart for a
> rebuild.  Each consecutive part gets more and more annoying to remove.
> I am to the nylon guide bearing and seal.  Haynes says to gently move
> the piston in and out to loosen it up so it will come out.  Yeah right.
> Any other ideas how to get that sucker out?  Thanks!
> 
> adrian
> 
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