(Solved): Master Cylinder - WTF?

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

On 12:20 am 04/01/07 Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, I still have at least a little hair left.
>
> I chatted with Ron on the phone this evening and he gave me
> a couple things to try.  The tests were fine, but by that
> time dad was over at the hangar so I picked his brain.  He
> felt the pedal and started suspecting the MC itself, so I
> went ahead and removed it.  Well, turns out that the
> booster that I installed was junk.  A) the shaft wasn't
> long enough to fully engage the MC piston and B) it was
> actually what was causing the serious "catch" in the pedal.
>
> I have re-installed the old booster, hoping that the brake
> fluid did no permanant damage to the internals.  (A new
> booster is unobtainium.)  The system bled beautifully after
> that, and the test drive was a success.  (Side note, I
> topped off the tank, and while pumping gas I had a guy
> remark that I had "a nice car, what year is it?"  Made me
> smile.  :)
>
> So Deiter is in the garage, having done the big hangar
> car-shuffle after the test drive.  It's now a bit after
> midnight, and I think I'll go have dinner.
>
> Thanks to all for the suggestions / encouragements /
> postulations.  That's a big part of what this list is all about.
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S (Deiter)       '86 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!)  '88 Scirocco 16v
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon          '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts -
> Ehrlich's Law.
>

Glad to hear that Daun, and that IS a beautiful car, no question!
Cathy