Trying to boost my confidence, are you? :)
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
From Frank Clarici <spritenut at Exit109.com>
To: Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Cc: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>; IfixMGs@aol.com
<IfixMGs@aol.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: March 18, 2000 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Brake master cylinder Continued
>Charles Christ wrote:
>>
>> ok - ok i'm guilty! rebuilt my bugeye back in 90-91. re-did evrything
new
>> lines and new seals new hoses. filled systen with silicone fluid and not
1
>> hydraulic problem since. all i do is take out and run a hillclimb or two
>> evry year and trailer it out to fall hershey evry fall. it gets a serious
>> work out at hillclimbs. no hydraulic failures!
>
>Like chuck, I use silicone in the A40, I did loose brakes last weekend
>but only due to a leaky brake pressure switch.
>Not to start the silicone/DOT 4 thread again but I find the stuff great.
>It bleeds like dot 4, I have no problems with the tiny bubbles, the
>pedal is firm, and the brakes work fine (as long as there is fluid in
>the master that is)
>A good friend has had it in his Healey for 15 years now, never a
>problem.
>On the other hand, PIECES goes thru a master cylinder a year. It runs
>dot 4.
>My bugeye has never had a firm brake pedal, it too uses dot 4.
>All cars have everything new.
>
>
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Down to only 3 Sprites, 1 Midget and an A40 Farina
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
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