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Rubber Diaphram (WAS: Re: HELP: strange brake behavior)

To: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>, <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>, <jimrowan@uic.edu>
Subject: Rubber Diaphram (WAS: Re: HELP: strange brake behavior)
From: "Geoffrey P. Muttart" <gmuttart@mtdc.ns.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:37:11 -0300
Reply-to: "Geoffrey P. Muttart" <gmuttart@mtdc.ns.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Anyone know of a way to introduce a rubber diaphram to a Spridget master
cylinder?  Sounds like it would be a useful way to help avoid moisture being
absorbed by the brake fluid.

(I've got the early dual master cylinder on my Bugeye)

Geoff Muttart
gmuttart@mtdc.ns.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Samaroo <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>; jimrowan@uic.edu
<jimrowan@uic.edu>
Date: July 7, 1998 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: HELP: strange brake behavior


 This is how your
>fluid eventually gets contaminated with water vapour as well, every time
>you use the brakes or clutch a small amount of air is pulled in and
>expelled and the moisture absorbed by the Brake fluid. Most american
>cars have a rubber diaphram under the cover to prevent this, even back
>in the sixties.



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