No biggie... it's a tight squeeze in there with the brake MC, you may
want to pull the whole box with both MCs just for access (of course, that
means even more bleeding later). Do you have large fingers...?
Carefully inspect the flex hose and the slave cylinder before you order
the MC -- odds are that they want to be replaced as well. Typical
situation is you replace one of them and the other blows in a few days or
weeks. Some suppliers give you a discount on the set.
Bleeding the MC can be a pain sometimes, sometimes not... patience is
required. There have been many posts on this subject with useful
suggestions. Perhaps you might look at the archive. Good luck with it.
Bill Saidel had this to say:
>As all the newbies on the list know (and hi to all of you and to all of you
>learned folks, too), doing anything the first time is hard.
>
>Yesterday, on the way home with my SO in my '76B, the clutch MC blew. Made
>it home in 3rd through the 10 mph streets where I live. An interesting
>experience planning my movements for turns 150 yards ahead. And I thought
>the drips on the garage floor were engine oil!
>
>Anyway, I am planning to attempt it myself. 2 years I've had the car and
>every repair is new to me, so as a newby to this problem, what kind of a
>job is a clutch MC and is it in the realm of home repair? Now I've read
>numerous notes on the list about clutch MC repair successes but no one
>really says what they knew before they started.
>
> In the immortal words of that large actor playing the German soldier in
>Stalag 17 with the late Bob Crane, I know that "I know nothing" about this
>job. So I looked in the Moss catalog and Bentley's...it doesn't look horrid.
>
> But I'd appreciate the voice of experience before I start.
>
>TIA,
>
>Bill Saidel, '76B, :-( grounded for now
>
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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