- 1. Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Wright" <lrw@aop.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:29:05 -0400
- Today I've been deluged with posts about how Larry-with-more-money-than-brains should not be replacing the caliper, just replacing the interior seals, and not with O-rings. I just got off the phone w
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00243.html (7,466 bytes)
- 2. Re: Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:19:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Back in my youth I was rushing a brake job on an Austin Healey I owned 'cuz I had a date with my future wife that evening and the Healey was my only wheels. In my haste I snapped off one of the fitti
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00244.html (7,156 bytes)
- 3. Re: Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: pamelam@connix.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:25:12 -0400 (EDT)
- In the mid seventies I knew a social menace that was an absolute NUT behind the wheel of his turbo Corvair. I only time I rode with him was when I knew he was having severe detonation problems (20lbs
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00249.html (8,048 bytes)
- 4. Re: Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: Jeff Howarth <jeff@v8tiger.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:48:30 +0100
- try placing a plastic bag across the top of the reservior under the master cylinder cap. Remember, the cap allows air in to let the fluid go down when the brake pads wear ! regards -- Jeff Howarth
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00254.html (6,805 bytes)
- 5. Re: Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Laifman <Laifman@Flash.Net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:17:46 +0100
- Jeff, I am sur you meant for the "plastic bag" to act as a "temporary" way to hold the fluid from leaking. I tried Saran Wrap and found it was soluble in Girling LMA. Suggest compatability test befor
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00255.html (8,411 bytes)
- 6. Re: Hobson's choice (score: 1)
- Author: Jeff Howarth <jeff@v8tiger.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:20:33 +0100
- your absolutely right, I did intend it as a temporary seal whilst working in the brakes. apologies if it got mixed up in mid-Atlantic !! -- Jeff Howarth
- /html/tigers/1998-06/msg00265.html (6,762 bytes)
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