Oh, your'e gonna catch hell on this one.....
Assuming the cylinders were new because you rebuilt them was a flawed
assumption!
I wouldn't trust a home-job anything in the brake system...partly because I
just haven't done it enough.
The "I've done hydrualics before" was a dead give away, my man...
There are so many variables in the fact that you rebuilt the cylinders
yourself that a reasonable trouble-shooting response is almost
impossible...but I'm sure the list will shoot some trouble....hehe
Keep smilin', :)
Dan
That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger
-----Original Message-----
From: Tyson Sherman <tsherman@tecinfo.com>
To: MG mailing list <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:56 PM
Subject: What did I do wrong??
>Somebody up there must not like me. I put over 500 miles on my B last
>week without a hitch, so Monday I decided to take it off the road to
>rebuild the rear wheel cylinders (leaking). What should have been a two
>hour or so job has been three days in the making.
>I rebuilt both cylinders (easy, I've done hydraulics before). I start
>to bleed them and a bleeder screw breaks off - threads to the cylinder
>are stripped. So I get a new cylinder, and put it on. That was today.
>I borrowed an EZ-Bleed. I hook it up (to a pretty low tire - my press
>gauge was broken but the tire was low) and the master cylinder reservoir
>looks like it's going to blow up. I open a bleeder screw and nothing
>comes out. I pump the pedal (with the EZ-Bleed disconnected) just to
>see what it does, and the new cylinder leaks. Fluid shoots out of the
>rear-facing piston. Maybe I can use the seals from the rebuilt cylinder
>on the new one?
>Will my B ever see the road again? It's been in the 70s-80s every
>afternoon this week and riding around in an air-conditioned Japanese car
>is getting boring.
>
>Very frustrated =(
>
>--
>Tyson Sherman
>http://www.tecinfo.com/~tsherman
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