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master cylinder question



it might be that the bottle is cracked.... I've seen this more than the 
seals leaking.

Seals might be available in a rebuild kit or off a wreck...

-RGK-

At 05:33 PM 4/16/2003 -0400, Calimus wrote:
>I've been trying to track a brake fluid leak for a while now and I
>thought I had solved it with the tighening of a prop valve.  However,
>the leak didn't go away (did get much smaller though) and I think I've
>found the main leak as it's made itself very evisient as of late.  The
>small seals between the resivoir and the master itself appear to be
>leaking but prollie only when I get on the brake pedel as this has
>eluded me all this time.
>
>Now, are there replacement seals or will i have to replace the whole
>master (I do have a spare)?  If I can replace seals, that would be
>great, if it's the whole master, well not so great but doable.
>
>Oh, I also saw someone mention they had an oil leak by way of the 16v
>distributor.  Get another distributor, I tried a few different things to
>stop my leak, non worked.  Slightly used distro I got from the Tex went
>in the car this past weekend and I haven't leaked a drop since.
>
>William
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