with dremel inhand chuck up a small drill bit and side drill a hole from
the outside of the lip of the master cyl. straight into the grove of the
clip. then you can push a small punch into the bore and unseat the clip and
extract it using a pick with a curved or hook end by snake-ing it under
unseated clip. it helps to have the open end of the clip opposite ofthe
hloe when depressing clip with punch. also! using this method you can
depress the clip enough to deform it and destroy it to remove it too.
orrrrrr, with dremel in hand you can grind clip in half with a miniture
carbide bit and destroy remains that way. ah destruction sweet
destruction! best of luck frank!
chuck.
ah-ha-ha-ha(mad scientist type of maniacal laugh) i love tools of
destruction!! 7:21 am and have been doing emails for an hour now(replies)
and need to get to work ! today is last working day to finish top secret
project for summit point on friday morning, and the morgan's front
suspension too! it's going there too! gotta go!!!!.........c. :)
----- Original Message -----
From Frank Clarici <spritenut at Exit109.com>
To: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:40 AM
Subject: JC clip Help
> Sorry if this is the 2nd time you read this, the first never went thru.
>
> I snapped the little ears off the JC clip that holds the guts of a
> master cylinder in. Now I have to somehow remove the clip so I can
> rebuild the brake master.
> This is on a 67 Sprite, the unique brake master so I do not have any
> spares laying around.
> The clip is loose enough to slide around in the groove but with no
> little ears, how do I get it out? I already spent several hours calling
> it it's proper name (JC clip) instead of a "circlip" and I snapped off
> all of my dental picks and all of my cheapo chinese made hook tools. I
> even bent my crapsman screwdriver trying to wedge it under the clip.
> If I can't get the clip out, the master is trash. Anybody have a
> rebuidable brake master for a 67 Sprite? It is the single bore separate
> brake master used only in 1967.
> Anybody know how to get a JC clip out when the ears snap off?
> I can not get a dremel in there with the push rod in the way, and I have
> to remove the clip to get the rod out.
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> The bug in the rice bowl
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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