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Re: [T3] Master Cylinder questions


On 1 Jul 2002, at 14:10, Andy McDonald wrote:

> On this one, there is no fluid coming out. I get about 1/2" in the top of
> the tube and then it just moves back/forth on both sides. I don't even get
> much of a flow pulling the bleeder screw out.

Oh. In this case it could be the MC. Or it could just be the rubber line having 
clogged up; You should work you way back toward the MC opening the line 
in several places to see where things change. Try opening the line on the MC 
side of the rubber line. If that changes everything then the rubber line needs 
to be replaced. If not, it is the MC which is at fault. In a good system, fluid 
should drip rather rapidly out of any place that you open, including the bleed 
valves.

MCs don't do well if left sitting around after them have had brake fluid in 
them. If this old one was in an inactive car for a few years it may well be shot 
now. It might be rebuildable, or it might be too badly pitted to reuse.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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