<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That totally matches what I would expect to see. That round disc should have been on the inside of the clip. So either it was not assembled that way, which is odd. Or perhaps the disk is a smaller OD than the ID of the MC and the clip.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 17, 2022, at 12:01 PM, Joel Martin via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydp1d3a4e22yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div class=""></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello all.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I pulled apart the brake actuator today and the whole thing just fell out of the rubber boot? Rubber boot was split. There is a circle clip up next to the master cylinder plunger still in place.<br clear="none" class=""></div><br clear="none" class=""></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Here is a picture of my brake setup which does not match the picture below from the workshop manual.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">My question: How is the brake actuating rod retained in the master cylinder so it will not come out?</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span id="cid:91maXpEnBkCxi5jjcqfa"><My_Brake_plunger.jpg></span><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div>
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Brake Pedal (Joel Martin)<br clear="none" class=""> 2. Re: Brake Pedal (Jay)<br clear="none" class=""> 3. Re: Brake Pedal (Will Seay)<br clear="none" class=""><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg05745" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg5694307234"><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr" class="">1966 Tiger MK 1A</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><br clear="none" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks<br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div></div></div><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg74033" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg5694307234"><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" class=""><div class="">There are so many oddities here. First, at one end, the plunger should have a disc at the end, with a circlip that holds it in. That rubber boot would likely hold in the disc, even if the circlip broke. So since it “came out” of the rubber, it sounds like the center of the disc is some how flawed. But FWIW, I can’t imagine how that would happen unless something was quite odd in the assembly.<div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><div class=""><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">On Feb 14, 2022, at 4:28 PM, Joel Martin via Tigers <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">1966 Tiger MK 1A</div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">I had a little scare the other day backing out of the DMV parking lot. No Brakes. Discovered that the brake plunger had come out of the rubber sleeve going into the master cylinder.</div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">The only thing that could have happened is when I got out, my foot pulled the pedal back towards the interior and this pulled the plunger out.</div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">It only had the spring, plunger and rubber plug to hold the plunger into the master cylinder.</div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">Is there suppose to be something else to hold the plunger in place?</div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775">Thanks<br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none">Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" class="">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none">Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers" class="">http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers</a> <a href="http://autox.team.net/archive" class="">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/jay.laifman@gmail.com" class="">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/jay.laifman@gmail.com</a><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><br class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg71282" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7ymsg5694307234"><div id="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:small;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_default">Joel,</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_default">Your master cylinder was apparently assembled without the circlip. See #2 in the attached from the workshop manual.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_default"><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Will - 382001570 <br clear="none" class=""><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Tigers@embarqmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">Tigers@embarqmail.com</a></div></div></div><br clear="none" class=""></div><br clear="none" class=""><div class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:28 PM Joel Martin via Tigers <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp9d68e9cyiv4866135215ydp4386103dyiv2504392080ydpf1fea175yiv7324654534ydp1f66bfb7yiv7277777775gmail_quote"><div class=""><div style="font-family:garamond, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">1966 Tiger MK 1A</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I had a little scare the other day backing out of the DMV parking lot. No Brakes. Discovered that the brake plunger had come out of the rubber sleeve going into the master cylinder.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">The only thing that could have happened is when I got out, my foot pulled the pedal back towards the interior and this pulled the plunger out.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">It only had the spring, plunger and rubber plug to hold the plunger into the master cylinder.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Is there suppose to be something else to hold the plunger in place?</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks<br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="">
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