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Re: MGC Brakes

To: MG4EVR@aol.com
Subject: Re: MGC Brakes
From: xyzabcde@earthlink.net
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:25:38 +0000
Dave,

Oops!  You're right.  I was picturing the remote servos on a C and thinking of
the integral servo on a late model B.  That means that it _is_ the servos that
are bad and not necessarily the master cylinder.  Well, my only excuse is that
it's been 20 years since I worked on a late model B and about 18 since I worked
on a C.  I think I'm pretty much right about everything else.  If not, be sure
to correct me because I'd sure hate to mislead anyone.

As I told Mike, I think the ultimate solution is to replace the C master
cylinder with a B master cylinder of the same vintage and remove the servos
altogether.  I knew someone who was so cheap he put an early single-line master
cylinder on a C and T'd the lines together.  The car stopped but with a lot of
effort.

Denise Thorpe
Maybe I'll stick to what I really know.

MG4EVR@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/26/99 2:41:35 PM, xyzabcde@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> <<The way the brake fluid gets into the brake booster is from a leaking master
> cylinder.>>
> 
> I am curious, could you elaborate? Isn't the connection between the master
> cylinder and the servos through the servo's slave cylinders?  As I recall the
> servo is vacuum on one side and fluid on the other?
> Dave Stovall 69CGT

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