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----- Original Message -----
From "Bill Gilroy" <wmgilroy at gmail.com>
To: "Spridget Mailing List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:45 PM
Subject: What I learned in the shop today or the pedal box episode
> Both my master cylinders were leaking, the pedal box was rusty and the
> hole
> for the clevis pin on the clutch pedal was so oval that it was almost worn
> through! It needed a bit of work and I learned a whole bunch of things in
> the process.
>
> 1) Welding up the hole clutch is easy if you have a big piece of copper to
> put on the other side
> 2) When you powder coat the clutch master cylinder you learn the
> following:
> a) The cylinder is soldered together and solder melts below the highest
> temp
> for powder coating. I got lucky and only flowed a bit of solder to one end
> and it still holds fluid.
> b) To bench bleed the cylinder you must put your finger over the output
> hole
> or it will never bleed. You can pump the thing about 1000 times and still
> no
> joy.
> 3) Only in my garage is powder coating softened by brakekleen. Brake fluid
> has no effect on powder coating. Go figure.
> 4) Leather welding gloves offer less protection from hot items from an
> oven
> than you would think.
> 5) It is a real bitch to get the powder into a 90 degree corner.
>
> That is about it for the night. Tomorrow I rebuild the brake MC and put
> the
> whole thing back together.
>
> I assume that you just use a heavy grease on the pin that the pedals
> rotate
> pivot on. Is that correct?
>
> Gilroy
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