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Re: leaking master cylinder

To: mlawrence@datasys.net, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: leaking master cylinder
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 05:43:28 EDT
In a message dated 8/6/02 10:00:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mlawrence@datasys.net writes:


> (I assume it is brake fluid but
> when I tasted it, it didn't particularly taste like brake fluid)  I cannot
> find a leak in the MC itself (it is a new replacement).  

Huh?  You tasted it?  Could have been cat pee.

Is it possible for

> the plunger that is pushed into the MC by the brake pedal to leak up under 
> the
> rubber boot that covers it?  That's the only place I can guess its coming
> from.  By the way what is the thing that is just in front of the pedal box
> going forward in the engine compartment?  This is on a 79 1500 Midget.
> thanks
> 

Are you talking about the little plunger switch that is installed into the 
pedal box just in front of the brake pedal?  That would be the brake light 
switch.

--David C.

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