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RE: What's wrong with my brakes?

To: "'Richard B Gosling'" <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>,
Subject: RE: What's wrong with my brakes?
From: "Bowen, Patrick" <pbowen@intellinetics.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:22:26 -0400
Actually, I would say the fact that it came on suddenly would indicate that
it is more repairable.  Most M/Cs are not repairable if they are pitted or
scored in the cylinder.  This is usually caused by water in the brake fluid
overtime.  The fact that this happened quickly indicates it is more likely a
rubber failure.  No big deal.  I would say rebuild it.  Couple of tricks to
rebuilding:  Clean everything while it is apart, lubricate everything before
it goes back togethor (why chew up new rubber while inserting it), the
rubber grommets that connect between the reservoir and the cylinder are easy
to put in backwards (big end goes into the cylinder if memory is correct),
and the most common problem is pull the tiny pin in the top of the rear port
before trying to remove the rear innards of the cylinder (seems like
everyone misses that one).  Of course that is for a dual M/C if you have a
single it will be slightly different.

Patrick Bowen 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Gosling [mailto:Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 9:05 AM
To: spitfires
Subject: RE: What's wrong with my brakes?



That was quick everyone!  Thanks to Craig, Patrick and Chuck who replied
within
 seconds!

Universal opinion - it is my master cylinder, or possibly caliper/slave
 cylinder.  Patrick reckoned that it is more likely to be the master if I
did
 not feel pulling to one side - no, Daffy still stops straight and true
(when
 she stops at all).

New master cylinder 65 quid, re-build kit 4.25, so I would obviously like to
go
 for the latter.  Never done a re-build before - how long will it take?  Can
I
 do it in an evening?  Any special tips?  Anything I should look for that
will
 tell me that I should really replace, not re-build?  Given that this seems
to
 have come on reasonably suddenly, does this make it more or less likely
that
 the M/C is un-repairable?

Thanks again,

Richard & Daffy (unstoppable projectile)

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