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kcbugeye1275

kcbugeye1275

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It has been my plan to install a dual master on my car. When I tried to bleed the brakes on the bugeye they didn't. I took off the master and tried to bench bleed and that didn't work. I've acquired another simular master and have taken it apart to the second snap ring. The plunger will not come out. It seems to have a stop of some type. I don't remember having this problem with my first one. What have I missed?
 
If you are talking about the late model master, there is a plastic thing-a-ma-jig in there that is durn near impossible to remove. And there is another snap clip under that if I remember. I used a long wood screw to extract the plastic piece, but scratched my cyliner wall in the process. Someone else of the forum suggested cooking it out with a torch. That sounds like the best idea to me.
 
The reason I'm taking the second master apart is to make sure I put mine together corectly. The first stop is kept by a spiral lock, then a snap and the fiber washer, followed by a rubber cup, then a thin (1/16" metal washer), another snap ring, and a solid rubber, simular to the two to the the tank for the fluid. All this said, now the plunger doesn' come out. I've seen others post that they are afraid of the carbs, and I really haven't been terrorized by them, but my fear comes from these d#*@ed masters. Help?!?!?!
 
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