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How difficult to refurb your master cylinder?


zambo

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I've done both- hone/rebuild & remove/replace.

 

As with anything for your brakes...super clean and smooth. If anything looks questionable, it is probably bad and should be replaced.

 

As C.D. used to say, "They're your brakes!"

Steve J

72 tii / 83 320is / 88 M3 / 08 MCS R55 / 12 MC R56

& too many bikes

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none of that info was in your post, nor is it in your profile.  if it was in your profile at least, much of this discussion would have been more useful.....


I usually do and didn’t notice I hadn’t until a couple of posts in, at which point I referenced the RHD config.

Apart from the vendor info, I think all the other info is useful and thanks to you and all for responding.

Accessing a rebuild kit or getting it professionally reworked is never a problem with RHD components like this.

It’s the convenience of buying off the shelf from the likes of Blunt, etc. that LHD owners in the U.S. enjoy that is something we miss out on.

Thanks again.
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On 12/23/2018 at 10:39 AM, rover1 said:

just to give an example replacing cv boots is kind of a thing of the past its much more cost affective to just replace the whole axle.

dang...i must have missed that memo.  i replace cv boots and repack the joints regularly.  axles too hard to find in good shape!

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Not exceptionally difficult, but a PITA. Instructions quote a few special tools. Keeping both halves compressed to fit the snap ring needs a 3rd thumb. All in all, things are easier to take apart when you dont plan on putting it back together

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On 12/23/2018 at 2:13 PM, zambo said:

It’s the convenience of buying off the shelf from the likes of Blunt, etc. that LHD owners in the U.S. enjoy that is something we miss out on.

yes, it is unfortunate that the RHD parts were designed so differently than the LHD ones.

2xM3

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48 minutes ago, mlytle said:

yes, it is unfortunate that the RHD parts were designed so differently than the LHD ones.

Right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing.

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Steve J

72 tii / 83 320is / 88 M3 / 08 MCS R55 / 12 MC R56

& too many bikes

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Anyway its Christmas morning on this side of the planet - which just goes to prove that RHD markets in fact really are ahead of the rest of you dudes. ?

 

Thanks again for all the advice on this and a range of my recent posts. I'll be back after the holidays - or if I get bored, during - with more "insightful" RHD questions. 

 

So Merry Christmas to many and happy holidays to some.

 

Richard

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