So, who's had the master cylinder reservoir crack while

[Jon Linkov]

No, the reservoir cracked...with 123K+ on the clock, the plastic wore out. I
don't know the pressure that COULD force the crack to grow, but I've had
other plastic fluid containers crack for no reason. And this thing had a
stress crack already...so it could have failed while driving.


On 6/21/04 3:54 PM, "John Larson" <j.d.larson at verizon.net> wrote:

> John said, oddly:  "So, all in all, it sucked that it happened, but it could
> easily have
> happened in an emergency situation and I'd have been screwed."
> 
> It's difficult for me to picture a brake master cylinder failing under
> pressure in an emergency situation, as the ONLY time it is under pressure is
> when you induce that pressure during an attempt to bleed the system.
> Sitting in your garage, shop, or driveway is unlikely to become an emergency
> situation, IME ............................  John
>