Help, Listers -
I got my '76 B brake servo rebuilt by Apple Hydraulics - and while I'm at
it, I'm replacing clutch and brake master cylinders. OK so I got the new
clutch master in and the servo installed. Everything inside the pedal box
is back together - no small feat on a late model B. Next, I bench bled the
new brake master and got ready to install it...
Problem: new master cylinder (or old one for that matter) won't bolt up to
the rebuilt servo. Servo came back from Apple with a rubber seal around
the push rod (that engages the master cylinder piston) that sits flush with
outside of servo. But the master cylinder has a 'nose' that protrudes
perhaps 1" into the servo. This seal popped off easily enough, revealing
another rubber seal (like the old one) with radial slots - designed to slip
over the protruding nose of the mc. But even in this configuration, the
mc will not slide into the servo. Yes I can force it enough to get nuts on
the studs and by tightening them, I suppose I could pull it together - but
I hesitate to try something like that unless I know it's the way to go.
Any advice? After 12 years of building disc-brake Bs very successfully
without servos, I can't imagine what convinced Abingdon that a servo was
necessary!
Thanks much in advance for any help you can spare me.
Allen
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Allen H. Bachelder =iii=<
Sinking Creek Home for Wayward MGs
New Castle, VA 24127
USA
540/544-7333
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