Are you sure you put the both piston seals right way around in the MC
when you reassembled it?
-g
At 9:29 AM -0500 3/14/04, John D'Agostino wrote:
>I just finished rebuilding the clutch master, replacing line, hose, and new
>slave cylinder on this Sprite of mine. I needed to
>make a longer slave cyl. push rod in order to get the clutch to disengage. It
>seems to work, but it releases with the pedal almost to the floor
>and there is only about an inch of total travel at the slave cyl. When
>releasing the pedal, the slave cylinder piston pulls back initially, then
>slowly
>moves outward. Almost as if it's being sucked back in. Before I made the
>longer shaft the slave cylinder was just moving back and forth about an inch.
>Something does not seem right. Perhaps the wrong diameter master cyl or
>slave? It's a 1968 1275.
>
>The good news is this is the first time it's actually turned the rear wheels
>under it's own power in about 25 years, even if it is still on jack stands...
>Any suggestions will be welconed.
>
>Thanks,
>J
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