[Spridgets] Brake Bleed p.s.

[Paul Van Wig]

The extended reservoir is a standard MGA part. That can be picked up
separately.

Paul Van Wig

Big Bear/Lakewood, CA


On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:06 AM HealeyRick via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> What I'm going to tell you will probably get the other Spridge folks upset
> because it flies in the fact of common knowledge.  I can only tell you what
> happened when we finished a disc brake swap on a friend's bugeye that had
> already been started.  Initially, we purchased a new TRW 3'4" bore MC.  The
> car had standard rear drum brakes.  Try as we might, we couldn't get a hard
> pedal, even after installing stainless lines all around.  We screwed around
> with pushrod adjustment, still no dice.  What we finally ended up doing was
> purchasing one of these 7/8" inch MCs with an increased reservoir:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/200920716753?fits=Model%3ASprite&hash=item2ec7ced5d1:g:fdsAAOxy02dRf~cB
> I'm not sure whether we trimmed the pushrods down a bit as well as it was
> one of the many things we tried.  Might be worth a shot if you get
> desperate.  My motto, "If it doesn't;t work, keep throwing new parts at it
> until it does."
>
> Happy Healeying,
> Rick Neville
>
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 5:49 PM Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Clearance on master pushrod correct.
>> Mike
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 12:53 PM Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Should have asked this before, but did you change pushrods when you
>>> changed masters?
>>>
>>> > On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:41 PM, Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> > Hi Mike,
>>> >
>>> > Do you have the proper clearance on the master pushrod at rest?
>>> >
>>> > Rick
>>> >
>>> >>> On Jan 18, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
>>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >> 
>>> >> It's  a new AP Lockheed master.
>>> >> Mike
>>>
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