Any competent machine shop should be able to install sleeves.
Les Myer
At 09:35 PM 10/21/97 UT, you wrote:
>Jeff
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>Good questions. I think most of your assumptions are correct. I have been
>looking for a e-mail address or web sites for one of the companies that do
>this work but none seem to be on line. Lots of adds in Hemmings but no
>e-mail. Hopefully someone on the list will be able to better answer these
>questions. One thing that I remember was that heat and a press were involved.
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>Larry
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>From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net on behalf of Editors, Molecular Vision
>Sent: 21 October, 1997 2:13 PM
>To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: Master Cylinders Sleaves
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>I am not tired of the thread. Please do not shut up. I am interested in
>(this is crazy, I know) resleeving my own! How do they do it? I assume they
>start with an old MC and some copper tubing with 3/4" ID, bore out the old
>cylinders to slightly less than the OD of the tubing, heat the MC (or cool
>the tubing), insert, cut, grind the end of the tubing to approximate the
>beveled edge originally set on the cylinder lip, and then drill the holes
>in the walls of the sleeves by going through the resevior filler opening.
>Do they use an epoxy or somesuch to hold the sleeves in, or is it a heat
>fit, or what? What grade of copper tubing is used? Softer "refrigerator"
>copper or the harder, general-purpose plumbing?
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>Jeff
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>>O.K. here we go again on a different tack of the same subject. The master
>>cylinder in my #1 Bugeye had a copper sleave installed some 15 to 20 years
>>ago
>>on the advice of my machinist (who has since passed away). As an aside, it
>>cost me $10 plus tax on the copper sleave at the time. This MC has been in
>>the
>>car since with only one parts rebuild. It still works fine but is starting to
>>leak a little around the push rods. From the mail I have received and people
>>that I have spoken with, its running about 50/50 for/against success with
>>resleaving. I would like to hear from anyone that has done it and how it has
>>worked out so far. If you remember you might also add where you had it done.
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>>If everyone is tiring of this brake talk, yell and I will shut up.
>>
>>Larry Miller
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