Well it turned out to be the slave cylinder, bought a rebuild kit and so far so good. The only problem I had was bleeding the darn line by myself. I have a vacuum pump, and used it before successfully, but this time I must had leak in the system. So I left the rear end up on jack stands overnight and the next day when I got home from work the system had bled itself. Took the bleeder valve completely out and to my surprise fluid was leaking out. Being a doubting Thomas I went up front and gave the peddle a few pushes and could hear fluid dripping into the catch basin I had below the unit. Tightened everything up and topped of the fluid and off I went. Thanks to all that chimed in. Paul 85WWW, who coined that one? On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Paul <wognacious@gmail.com> wrote: > I know my master cylinder was going south on me and yesterday my girlfriend > called me to let me know that there was a large puddle of liquid under my > precious Westy. When I asked her under what part of the Westy was the puddle > she said it was kinda under the "wheelie thing" at the back. By that she > meant the rear axle. So if the master cylinder failed, broke or whatever you > would call it why would the brake fluid be there? Adding brake fluid to the > reservoir and pumping did nothing, peddle just goes right to the floor with > no resistance. > Thoughts please. > TIA, > Paul Rogers > 85 WWW > |
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