Okay - yesterday I had a problem extracting the secondary piston while in the process of rebuilding my master cylinder for the my 74 Spitfire (early type tandem unit). I was able to extract it after some sage advice from the list (banging cylinder on a block of wood).
My question today is this - after extracting it I realized that the secondary piston appearred to have been installed backwards (i.e. the secondary piston was installed so it did not engage with the spring instead the valve seal unit engaged with the spring). The expanded view of the master cylinder in the Haynes manual suggests that this is backwards. However, noting that the brakes worked for approx. 8 years the way that the master cylinder was setup prior to me attempting to rebuild I wanted to confirm that the Haynes expanded view is the correct orientation of the internal parts of the master cylinder. I am leaning towards the fact that the garage I had rebuild the master cylinder eight years ago screwed up, but you know the saying "measure twice and cut once" so I thought I would double check. Thanks, Jim Cullen Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html === This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register === http://www.vtr.org === Help keep Team.Net on the air === http://www.team.net/donate.html === unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try === http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool === Other lists available at === http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo === Archives at http://www.team.net/archive === http://www.team.net/the-local === Edit your replies!
