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Old 12-03-2001, 04:04 PM
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Cal,

I used the factory cast Wagner/Lockheed slave cylinder with the bracket cast as part of the assembly. I checked with Unique this morning, and Alan had never heard of this happening, since the cast metal is about 3/8ths in thickness. I went to NAPA this morning (they too were surprised to see the break), and they were able to cross reference their number with Lockheed's number. Surprisingly, they had one in stock. More interestingly, was the fact that the bracket arm of this new unit had a slight jog in it, which centered the drive arm more precisely to the middle of the fork. The Lockheed cylinder had a straight arm bracket which is why Unique had to notch the bell housing. Anyway, maybe a casting weakness, or possibly dropped somewhere in the distribution stream, causing a slight fracture at the weakest point on the cylinder, the mounting hole. All's well, that ends well!! Installed the new one today, and headed off into the 70 degree, blue sky day. Thanks for responding.

Fred
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