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

To: "Bill Saidel" <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Pt. 2: Next lesson: a blown clutch master-cylinder
From: paul.hunt1@virgin.net
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:48:15 +0100
As others have said do the slave as well and replace the flex.  It's a pity
you can't flush the pipes with the old m/c but failing that tip some clean
fluid in the new m/c and flush the system then.  To refil use an Eezi-Bleed
with very low pressure on the *slave*, only takes a couple of minutes to
fill the system apart from topping off, and you shouldn't need to bleed the
system.

PaulH.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:58 PM
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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