[Healeys] Brake reservoir gasket

[Earl Kagna]

Greg:

Sorry I wasn't clearer - the leak in the clutch slave was from normal 
causes - 17 years and about 50K miles of wear on the seal - not caused in 
any way that I could see by the aftermarket reservoir gasket.

The siphoning of brake fluid from the outer (brake) section of the reservoir 
to the centre (clutch) section - (and then of course all over the bottom of 
the car!) - is what has us stumped.  We feel it could only have been caused 
by the use of the modified gasket, but we have no clue as to how or why.  It 
seems to be impossible.

Earl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Wilkinson" <gregwilkinson at roadrunner.com>
To: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Brake reservoir gasket


Hi Earl,
Just curious, if you're stumped with the cause of the leak, how can you
blame the gasket?
Cheers,
Greg

-----Original Message-----
Gents:

 The clutch m/cyl. developed a fluid leak.  Believe it of not, what started
to happen was the fluid in the brake (outer) part of the reservoir dropped.
Before anyone states the obvious - calls me a 'drongo' - that the reservoir
outlet pipes were reversed, that was absolutely not the case.  It was
checked multiple times.  For some reason, somehow, the aftermarket gasket
caused that to happen.  We're still trying to figure that one out!  (when I
say 'we', a couple of very knowlegeable British car professional mechanics
were consulted).

So the clutch master cyl. was repaired with a kit, and the original reervoir
gasket was re-installed -for now.  This was last fall, and the car has not
been driven much since.

If any of the list members would care to hazard a guess as to why this would
have happened, take your best shot - we are totally stumped here.