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RE: Spitfire Brakes

To: "Graziano, Michael" <michael.graziano@csfb.com>
Subject: RE: Spitfire Brakes
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.scranton.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:52:41 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Graziano, Michael wrote:

> 
> Just don't let her drive it.
> 
> seriously,  I seem to remember someone else having this problem with a
> master cylinder that had some corrosion halfway down.  Well all the way
> down,  but bad corrosion halfway down.  Poor braking until the seal was made
> after the bad corrosion.  
> 
> Sound plausible?
> 

I would think a dead giveaway of this would be brake fluid leaking
out of the master cylinder.  Maybe not a lot, but enough to smell
or see when working under the bonnet.

bill

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