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Leaking Master Cylinder

P pauleric
My master cylinder is leaking. everythign was fine until three weeks ago I jacked the fornt of the car up to go through the front end. After 4 or 5 days of it being in the air the front reservoir (dual circuit) had drained itself down empty. The fluid seems to be leaking from between the plastic nipple and the rubber surrround/grommet type piece.

This is a new master cylinder with maybe 1,ooo miles on it. I dropped the front of the car, re-filled the reservoir, blead the brakes and things seemed to be holding pretty good. There was still a small leak from the same area. I jacked the rear of the car up last night to adjust valves, adjust brakes. Both reservoirs drained out all over the floor at what looks to be the same connection.

Anyone have any idea as to what is going on and how I may be able to fix it? I purchased new blue brake line yesterday. Madness.
1956 Thunder Ranch(Speedster)
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P pauleric
My master cylinder is leaking. everythign was fine until three weeks ago I jacked the fornt of the car up to go through the front end. After 4 or 5 days of it being in the air the front reservoir (dual circuit) had drained itself down empty. The fluid seems to be leaking from between the plastic nipple and the rubber surrround/grommet type piece.

This is a new master cylinder with maybe 1,ooo miles on it. I dropped the front of the car, re-filled the reservoir, blead the brakes and things seemed to be holding pretty good. There was still a small leak from the same area. I jacked the rear of the car up last night to adjust valves, adjust brakes. Both reservoirs drained out all over the floor at what looks to be the same connection.

Anyone have any idea as to what is going on and how I may be able to fix it? I purchased new blue brake line yesterday. Madness.
FM Former Member
You're lucky, usually the inside seal lets go.

I've picked up a pair of these before and they work well for repairs:

http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=VWC-113-611-810

In the future, you must be VERY careful with brake parts. The stuff coming out of India is scrap metal. Go for ATE or Girling whenever possible.

Master cylinders ought to last decades, call Airkewld and let 'em know that selling crap isn't Kewl. Demand a replacement, plain and simple. If they screw around, post what happened to you EVERYWHERE ! ! !

There's no excuse. There just isn't, money is too hard to come by to put up with this shit ! !

Luck,

TC
P pauleric
Just purchased a German FAG master cylinder. I'll trash the one from Airkewld. I have $1100 of brake parts boxed up in my garage from Airkewld. I explained i wasn't happy with the product and wanted to return it. I was initially told that i cant. I was then told yes, i can return it... but would be refunded less than 50% of the original price. There is a whole story there... maybe worth another thread at some point. Bottom line is I was not happy with the product or the way the company was telling me to install the pieces and they didn't do much to help. So much for "buy American".
Gordon NicholsGordon NicholsMassachusetts 1993 CMC Supporting Member
On the other side of the coin, I ordered about $1,000 of parts from SoCal last month. They shipped most and automatically set up a backorder for the rest. I got to work installing what I had and working around the three shortages. One part I got locally so called them up and canceled that part no-problem. They called me the other day and told me it would be "a couple of months" before they could get the other two parts and did I want to wait of cancel them? I canceled them and they issued a refund AND sent me the printed invoice for my records.

I've had similar experiences with Cip, and my only complaint with CB is they seem to wait a while before the order is processed and shipped, rather than same or next day shipping.

For brake stuff, I try to stay with AC Industries or Wilwood whenever I can to avoid tolerance problems. Haven't dealt with Airkewld at all.

gn
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