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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:29:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Tool trick..(not Xmas related)
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Changing your brake Master Cylinder. One of the 'gotchas' in that job is how to get the sometimes stuck brake fluid reservoir out of the rubber grommets in the brake cylinder without breaking or cracking the barbs. I did mine today and indeed, the res. was stuck in there pretty well. Tried all manner of pry techniques and BFFI, too. (BFFI= Brute Force and _______ing Ignorance) Then I recalled my handy dandy dandelion garden tool that I usually use for removing the axle nut caps and some times the regular hubcaps. That dorky Wal Mart tool is perfect to slip under the flanges on the fluid res. between the white plastic and the rubber grommets, and pry it up without flexing the 'spigots' and maybe cracking them.

Got the job done in about 2.5hrs including bleeding with my Motive power bleeder...another good tool.

Don Hanson


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