Jeff
Good questions. I think most of your assumptions are correct. I have been
looking for a e-mail address or web sites for one of the companies that do
this work but none seem to be on line. Lots of adds in Hemmings but no
e-mail. Hopefully someone on the list will be able to better answer these
questions. One thing that I remember was that heat and a press were involved.
Larry
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From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net on behalf of Editors, Molecular Vision
Sent: 21 October, 1997 2:13 PM
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Master Cylinders Sleaves
I am not tired of the thread. Please do not shut up. I am interested in
(this is crazy, I know) resleeving my own! How do they do it? I assume they
start with an old MC and some copper tubing with 3/4" ID, bore out the old
cylinders to slightly less than the OD of the tubing, heat the MC (or cool
the tubing), insert, cut, grind the end of the tubing to approximate the
beveled edge originally set on the cylinder lip, and then drill the holes
in the walls of the sleeves by going through the resevior filler opening.
Do they use an epoxy or somesuch to hold the sleeves in, or is it a heat
fit, or what? What grade of copper tubing is used? Softer "refrigerator"
copper or the harder, general-purpose plumbing?
Jeff
>O.K. here we go again on a different tack of the same subject. The master
>cylinder in my #1 Bugeye had a copper sleave installed some 15 to 20 years
>ago
>on the advice of my machinist (who has since passed away). As an aside, it
>cost me $10 plus tax on the copper sleave at the time. This MC has been in
>the
>car since with only one parts rebuild. It still works fine but is starting to
>leak a little around the push rods. From the mail I have received and people
>that I have spoken with, its running about 50/50 for/against success with
>resleaving. I would like to hear from anyone that has done it and how it has
>worked out so far. If you remember you might also add where you had it done.
>
>If everyone is tiring of this brake talk, yell and I will shut up.
>
>Larry Miller
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