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1. Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:12:59 -0500; Here's a tough one:- I've got 12 brake slave cylinders from two MGTD's. They are ALL rusted so that the pistons are frozen in the cylinders. I have tried EVERYTHING to get these things apart, includi; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00576.html (8,074 bytes)
2. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: ewsinc@blazenet.net (Charlie Baldwin); Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:53:49 -0400; David, Two other methods that some will suggest are air pressure and hooking up a grease gun to force it out. From my experience though on TDs with the dissimilar metals you will not have any luck. W; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00603.html (9,044 bytes)
3. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>; Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:30:21 +0000; David, Well, you've got a dozen of them, so you're in a better position to experiment than most of us. I think Aluminum does expand more than steel, but I sold back all of my materials texts, so I c; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00610.html (9,074 bytes)
4. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord); Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:54:08 EDT; On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:12:59 -0500David Littlefield (dmeadow@juno.com) that the pistons are frozen in the cylinders. I have tried EVERYTHING to get these things apart, including: WD-40, Liquid Wrench,; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00620.html (9,558 bytes)
5. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: mgbob@juno.com (ROBERT G. HOWARD); Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 07:35:49 EDT; Hi Dave, Last year in TSO was a tech note from a fellow with the same problem. He filled the cylinders with as much oil as they would hold, then screwed in a bolt to "compress" the oil. Since the oil; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00627.html (9,067 bytes)
6. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Don Mathis <donmathis@lucent.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 07:55:22 -0400 (EDT); In the South...the real South, we soak things like that in Coca-cola. The phosphoric acid is the good stuff that does it. good luckDon Mathis,Ph.D. donmathis@lucent.com '61 MGA '37 Derby Bentley (B19; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00628.html (8,872 bytes)
7. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:27:18 -0500; Whew! Ok, that's enough! I got 16 replies on the brake cylinder question. I tried to respond to each one individually and got overwhelmed! Thanks to all who responded. In the immortal words of Craig; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00638.html (8,190 bytes)
8. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Str64@aol.com; Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:14:13 -0400 (EDT); On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:12:59 -0500David Littlefield (dmeadow@juno.com) that the pistons are frozen in the cylinders. I have tried EVERYTHING to get these things apart, including: WD-40, Liquid Wrench,; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00653.html (8,511 bytes)
9. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Andy Ramm <aramm@concentric.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 10:16:27 -0700; Whoa cowboy! Before you turn your calipers into a branding iron, try using Exrust from Kano Labs. I don't have their number handy, but I bet it's on the big list of vendors on team.net. This has save; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00654.html (9,149 bytes)
10. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Andy Ramm <aramm@concentric.net>; Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 13:19:01 -0700; Whoa indeed, I didn't catch the aluminum part. Thanks for catching this and my appologies for the lamebrain suggestion. :O Andy Andy Ramm aramm@concentric.net DoD #1682 So much to brew, so little tim; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00666.html (8,531 bytes)
11. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@monmouth.net>; Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 13:17:54 -0400; My years of experience, (and I am pretty stupid) is to heat the outside of the cylinder with a torch (lightly) and bang the sucker until the piston comes out. I soft wire brush on a wheel the piston; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00675.html (8,556 bytes)
12. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: dmeadow@juno.com; Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 08:57:57 -0500; No mas! No mas! -- Roberto Duran Now I've had 22 responses to my inquiry. Thanks to all of you, particularly Skip for giving me step-by-step instructions for getting these things apart, and to Jarl,; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00728.html (8,750 bytes)
13. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:32:59 +0000; Coca-cola is also great for getting sqaushed flies off the windscreen ('S' for 'squashed fly on the windscreen' being one of my better 'I Spy's'). All you have to do then is get the Cola off the glas; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00749.html (7,914 bytes)
14. Re: Frozen brake slave cylinders (score: 1): Author: Don Mathis <donmathis@lucent.com>; Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 15:59:19 -0400 (EDT); you have I can remember driving into a Filling station and a guy pumping gas and then using a corn cob and Coca cola to clean the windshield. Don Mathis,Ph.D. donmathis@lucent.com '61 MGA '37 Derby B; /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00756.html (8,082 bytes)

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