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Re: Brake Master Cylinder Rebuild Suggestions

To: BillSvale@aol.com, morris@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Brake Master Cylinder Rebuild Suggestions
From: Gerard <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:10:07 -0800
Bill,

If you are referring to the thin metal washer, it sits between the Master
cup and the piston, concave surface against the master cup. In the Morris
factory workshop manual,  the valve washer is the rubber washer that is
inserted first in the bore. That's sounds like what you have left over.

Gerard
San Francisco

At 1:43 AM -0500 2/23/02, BillSvale@aol.com wrote:
>Dear list members:  I am trying to interpret the brake master cylinder
>rebuild instructions in the Morris Minor Haynes manual and can't quite figure
>out how the forward most metal washer labeled "Valve washer" fits together
>with the other parts.  Does the rubber "valve cup" somehow attatch to it or
>does the valve washer just sit unattached at the ene of the bore?  Also, I
>seem to have an leftover flat rubber washer in the rebuild kit with nowhere
>to put it.  Does this washer get used on a different version but not my 1957
>Convertable?  I also remember hearing some folk wisdom about modifying the
>master cylinder (ie leaving some parts off) for front disc brake conversion.
>Any suggestions?  Thanks for your help.  ---Bill Langdell, Sunnyvale
>California   '57 Minor Convertable



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