Tyson my I suggest that you walk away for a day and then go back and start
from the beginning, going step by step! This is what I usually do once I
get really frustrated. You are obviously missing something. I have rebuilt
my rear cylinders and the piston seals in the front calipers with success
and I am a shade tree mechanic at best!
Safety Fast!!
Ross Overcash, 74B, NAMGBR 2-1172, Ayer, MA
http://www.tiac.net/users/jroverca/index.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Tyson Sherman
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 6:53 PM
> To: MG mailing list
> Subject: What did I do wrong??
>
>
> Somebody up there must not like me. I put over 500 miles on my B last
> week without a hitch, so Monday I decided to take it off the road to
> rebuild the rear wheel cylinders (leaking). What should have been a two
> hour or so job has been three days in the making.
> I rebuilt both cylinders (easy, I've done hydraulics before). I start
> to bleed them and a bleeder screw breaks off - threads to the cylinder
> are stripped. So I get a new cylinder, and put it on. That was today.
> I borrowed an EZ-Bleed. I hook it up (to a pretty low tire - my press
> gauge was broken but the tire was low) and the master cylinder reservoir
> looks like it's going to blow up. I open a bleeder screw and nothing
> comes out. I pump the pedal (with the EZ-Bleed disconnected) just to
> see what it does, and the new cylinder leaks. Fluid shoots out of the
> rear-facing piston. Maybe I can use the seals from the rebuilt cylinder
> on the new one?
> Will my B ever see the road again? It's been in the 70s-80s every
> afternoon this week and riding around in an air-conditioned Japanese car
> is getting boring.
>
> Very frustrated =(
>
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> Tyson Sherman
> http://www.tecinfo.com/~tsherman
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