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Hondo,

That's one of the benefits of silicone brake fluid as it does not absorb moisture unlike normal glycol-based brake fluid (DOT 3, 4 and 5.1).

Scott
 
oo and post script, thats PS,since water seeks the lowest point in your breaks, Wheel cylinders and calipers if you have a few Cc of water in your wheel cylinders, and you decide to go out and test your brakes or get in hard braking suituations, guess what when the fluid get to 212 degrees thats 100 C for you metric guys, the water boils turns to steam and now you have air in your break system and NO Breaks.... and since it a closed system, all cools down steam condenses to water and you have breaks again, till the next hard breaking road racing session. I know for a fact and its hard to figure out since you end up working on it when its cold the next morning and all seems well since you have breaks again my experience

Hondo
 
DNK said:
Tom, did you notice it was broken?
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Hi Don - it didn't visibly split like that until I tried to straighten the bend. I think it was toast at that point anyway so I'm kind of glad it simply broke when it did rather than letting me bend it back into shape and subsequently breaking while - say - 300 miles from home.
 
tdskip said:
Bugger!

So started doing the rebuild - which is really easy BTW - and noticed that my spring was a bit funky. Hard to see in this picture but the spring wasn't entirely straight, it was bowed out on one side where the two coils were jammed together closer than the rest.

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So I tried to straighten it since it was bowed out far enough it would have gouged the bore and look what happened;

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I had one of those in one of my MCs when I last rebuilt -- and I thought, "NOBODY'S going to have one of those! They'll all want me to buy a whole new MC." So I went to the local hardware store, armed with the wire thickness, overall length, inside diameter and number of turns -- and found one! I put that cylinder in the clutch spot -- better to lose a clutch cylinder than a brake cylinder -- but it's still working just fine... It can be repaired cheaply.
 
Although only listed for the TR4-6 style MC, Moss 582-065 will work fine in the TR3 Girling MCs. Price sure has gone up in the past 10 years though, I remember thinking $2 was ridiculous.
 
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