[Spridgets] Rebuilding master cylinder

[Dean Hedin]

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