I think it's worthwhile to tear it down and see why it is leaking.
You'd be flying blind otherwise.
Let say you open it up and find little bits of crystallized conventional
brake fluid stuck in between the rubber and the cylinder wall?
Now whatcha going to do?
I don't know of any master cylinder in the world that will fix that problem.
Something ELSE fixes THAT problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of David Riker
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Rebuilding master cylinder
October of last year I replaced my master cylinder on my 1974 Midget. My
local parts house is a Moss distributor, and so I purchased the Classic Gold
Brake master cylinder. I was assured that, although made in China, the
master cylinders were a pet project of one of the Moss employees, and that
they were painstakingly reproduced to be exactly as original. I was told
that any master cylinder that came back under warranty was being
disassembled to determine cause of failure, and improve future products,
yada...yada...yada. The master cylinder did in fact look exactly like the
original in every visible detail, and I can now say with authority that
after one year and less than 1000 miles, it leaks fluid EXACTLY the way the
original one did....
They have said I can return it for a new one, but seriously am thinking
about sending a very old core to be rebuilt instead.
David Riker
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