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RE: Pt. 2: Next lesson: a blown clutch master-cylinder

To: saidel@crab.rutgers.edu, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Pt. 2: Next lesson: a blown clutch master-cylinder
From: Duinhoven_Hans@emc.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:57:40 -0400
Well Bill,

I think in this case I can help you better.
The MC can be removed as per a good manual - I used the haynes manual.
After you have taken out the cylinder it either can be refurbished or you
put a new one in.
You can dismantle it and see with a strong light if the cylinder bore still
looks smooth.
Mine was very pitted on the bottom part inside the MC, so I immediately
decded to install a new one. No reaming possible.

I advise to thoroughly clean the line to the slave and clean the slave as
well.
For both MC and slave are refurbishment kits available.
The slave cyl. easily can be made smooth again with the fine abbressive
paper. The bore is quite wide as the MC is narrow, where pitted stuff makes
an easy leak.

When your busy, have the rubber hose near the slave cyl. replaced.
Mine started to leak when all was refurbished, so I had to dismantle the
line partly again. The darn starter motor was a bit annoying....

Cheers,

Hans


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Saidel [mailto:saidel@crab.rutgers.edu]
Sent: maandag 24 juli 2000 15:59
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Pt. 2: Next lesson: a blown clutch master-cylinder


As all the newbies on the list know (and hi to all of you and to all of you 
learned folks, too), doing anything the first time is hard.

Yesterday, on the way home with my SO in my '76B, the clutch MC blew. Made 
it home in 3rd through the 10 mph streets where I live. An interesting 
experience planning my movements for turns 150 yards ahead.  And I thought 
the drips on the garage floor were engine oil!

Anyway, I am planning to attempt it myself. 2 years I've had the car and 
every repair is new to me, so as a newby to this problem, what kind of a 
job is a clutch MC and is it in the realm of home repair? Now I've read 
numerous notes on the list about clutch MC repair successes but no one 
really says what they knew before they started.

        In the immortal words of that large actor playing the German soldier
in 
Stalag 17 with the late Bob Crane, I know that "I know nothing" about this 
job. So I looked in the Moss catalog and Bentley's...it doesn't look horrid.

        But I'd appreciate the voice of experience before I start.

TIA,

Bill Saidel, '76B, :-( grounded for now

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