Years ago the spring in my clutch MC broke. Only the last couple of turns broke
off, so I stretched out the rest a bit and put it back in. So far, it's
hanging in there.
I have never seen a source for this part, and naturally I would snap up one
or two if they became available.
Possibly some spring from another model cylinder would work, but it
would take a lot of persistence or luck to find a suitable one.
Possibly somebody in the spring industry could help...
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 07:55 AM 10/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
> After a GREAT summer as my daily driver (With a total of just 5 or 6 days
>with the top up), old Fireball has finally let me down. The spring inside the
>clutch master cylinder grenaded on me this past week, leaving the clutch
>ALMOST completely inoperative.
> The symptoms and evidence led me to believe that maybe a contaminant had
>managed to get into the clutch hydraulics (The fluif was dark and had an odd
>grit in it, plus the top seal has shrunk and warped a bit) and made the main
>seal swell and jam up in the bore (The piston wasn't coming all the way out,
>leaving about 1/2" of actual clutch action waaaay down at the end of the
>travel) but when I took 'er apart I found four pieces of spring in there,
>where there used to be one nice springy spring.
>
>So, does anyone know of a source for this oddball piece? I would really
>rather avoid getting a whole new master cylinder (Or taking the one off the
>other car) for want of one little spring!
>
>Luke
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