master cylinder disassembly

[Mihnea Cotet]

AFAIK and FWIW I'm working in the automotive clutch/brake/hydraulics
business, there's no rebuild kit for the 20v brake MCs period.
And IMHO/IME, rebuilding a brake MC is simply not worth the risk of having
no more brakes.

HTH,

Mihnea

At 14:05 21/03/2003 -0500, Kneale Brownson wrote:
>I've not heard of a rebuild kit for an alloy MC.
>
>They used to hone out cast iron MC's and reseal the piston with new rubber
>cups, but since the advent of aluminum MC's, that process has been
>abandoned, I believe.
>
>I tried disassembling the MC I replaced on my 200q20v a couple years ago,
>and removal of that circlip-looking thing did not free up the parts behind
>it.
>
>At 01:15 PM 03/21/2003 -0500, Brett Dikeman wrote:
>>Okay, maybe I missed it in the Bentley, but how do you get the bloody
>>thing apart?  I am, of course, referring to the $250-ish,
>>specific-to-the-200q20v, master cylinder(ie, aluminum alloy.)
>>
>>I see what looks sort of like a circlip, but no holes for circlip
>>pliers...okaaaaay.
>>
>>Hey, if there's a rebuild kit, there's gotta be a way to get it apart, right?
>