Era brakes Upgrade

davids2toys · #11 (**permalink**) 06-02-2015, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DanEC

Dave - it will be a couple days before I have access to my pictures
, but I will do so. Patrick may be able to post the info on the can lid seals.

On the reservoir - the brakes and the clutch cylinders normally only pull fluid from the reservoir to compensate for lining and clutch wear - a slow process. You have separate master cylinders for front and rear brakes and the clutch. If you blow the seal completely out of the clutch master and lose all the brake fluid in the reservoir - your brake systems are still full of fluid and tight and will operate fine. There will even be some fluid left in the lines to the brake masters from the reservoir since there are three lines. You should have brakes until the linings wear some more or a seal leak in the brakes develops.

Dan,
My thoughts: I understand about the 3 masters perfectly.
1) Clutch: Since the draw from for the clutch is the highest(middle of the reservoir) You could blow out the clutch master and still have brakes because you still would have half of the reservoir full of fluid. It has nothing to do with the brake masters being sealed at all.
Also, if you blew out the brakes, front or rear, you will drain the res instantly, leaving you with no clutch and stranded
2)Brakes: If you were to ...uh oh, the light bulb just went off! I was thinking of it like bleeding the brakes! So if you did leak from the rear and lost all your fluid in the res, you would still have front brakes because the line is going to a different master. The front would only call for fluid from the res to compensate for lining wear or a leak, and because the front brakes are not leaking, there is no call for fluid from the res. In theory, it sounds good...sill scary!
Still no clutch...LOL
Thanks...Dave
EDIT the next morning: Perhaps the clutch master works the same way as what you said about the brake master cyls. So even if I lost all my fluid thru a leak in the brake line. I would still have a clutch even though there is no fluid in the reservoir?