Frank,
I'm not familiar with this MC, but can you grind the outer
(protruding) edge of the ring down with a skinny Dremmel tool tip?
This might do two things for you. It may weaken the spring to the
point that you can use what's left of your tools to snap it out.
Additionally, it might make the ring less "proud" (British usage,
there) of the slot, such that whatever the ring normally holds in can
now slip over it.
Finally, this may seem stupid, but when I've had similar fit problems
(not with an MC, tho), I find that putting dry ice on the part that I
want to shrink while heating the part I want to pull off has always
worked. Of course, I have a freezer box full of dry ice, so this is
easy for me. Don't know how you'd heat the ring. Running current
across it would also run current across the MC.
Jeff
At 10:40 PM -0500 11/21/00, Frank Clarici wrote:
>Sorry if this is the 2nd time you read this, the first never went thru.
>
>I snapped the little ears off the JC clip that holds the guts of a
>master cylinder in. Now I have to somehow remove the clip so I can
>rebuild the brake master.
>This is on a 67 Sprite, the unique brake master so I do not have any
>spares laying around.
>The clip is loose enough to slide around in the groove but with no
>little ears, how do I get it out? I already spent several hours calling
>it it's proper name (JC clip) instead of a "circlip" and I snapped off
>all of my dental picks and all of my cheapo chinese made hook tools. I
>even bent my crapsman screwdriver trying to wedge it under the clip.
>If I can't get the clip out, the master is trash. Anybody have a
>rebuidable brake master for a 67 Sprite? It is the single bore separate
>brake master used only in 1967.
>Anybody know how to get a JC clip out when the ears snap off?
>I can not get a dremel in there with the push rod in the way, and I have
>to remove the clip to get the rod out.
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>The bug in the rice bowl
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
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