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Re: E clip or circlip

To: Daniel1312@aol.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: E clip or circlip
From: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:28:26 -0800
In-reply-to: <0.638bd8b1.25570f3b@aol.com>
Reply-to: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Daniel,

I'm not sure of the answer to your specific question, but there is also a
dished springwasher that should be used before the fastener.

Gerard

At 12:22 PM -0500 11/7/99, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>On the rear brakes the slave cylinder is held in position by a stupid clip
>called an E clip.  When I ran standard rear brakes I replaced the E clip with
>a circlip which I found was much easier to fit.
>
>However, I seem to recall that there is some argument against using a circlip
>instead of an E clip - something to do with allowing a degree of 'float' or
>'freeplay' of the slave.  Anyone know anymore about this?
>
>Daniel


If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos... then you
probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.

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