Russell writes:
"I'm about to refit the above to my RHD Series III about five years after
I took it out. Trouble is I have a part I'm not sure what to do with.
The master cylinder itself looks like an oversized version of something
Sherlock Holmes might have smoked - well maybe not Holmes, Dr Watson
perhaps. In my bag of parts is a piece of alloy with two little holes
and one big hole cut in it to match the end of the master cylinder which
bolts to the bulkhead. Is this piece of alloy a spacer, to fit between
the cylinder and the bulkhead?"
That is exactly where that spacer goes for the stock Series V car. The
master cylinder for the cars was the same for all of the later cars, the
ones that came with the power booster. The earlier cars without the
booster had a different master cylinder, with a smaller bore (a smaller
bore moves less fluid per movement of pedal, thereby making the effort
easier, but the effect less too). I do not know where the line was. It
might have been only the Series I car that had the earlier version. So, I
would suspect that your car originally used the spacer. However, the stock
master cylinder has a separate plastic resevoir for the fluid, it is not
part of the body of the cylinder. From your description, I'm not sure you
are holding a stock master cylinder.
Jay
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