WIMPUS Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Had a look around the master cilinders this evening ..Well noticed again some fluid .. I had a had time with the new brake master that was leaking, got an extra seal in the cap and now sorted !But not it was the clutch.. Got the cover off and what was there ... fluid ! So the new one is leaking already ! It was one from rimmers, an expensive TRW one (77£ ) !I'm really mad and annoyed about these 'new' parts A 2 days ago i was checking around also and noticed the fluid in the brake master was still good, in the clutch fluid was very black Need to find the invoice now and mail them, hopefully it will last still a few miles ... I had a spare but when rebuilding it i done something wrong and it was all stuck inside .. Has anyone bought these also ?Could a regular re-seal/repair kit work ? :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Hmm..... that looks like my fairly new (<5k miles) clutch master on the Vitesse. Also leaking..... Wasn't from Rimmers and was much less than £ 77 but was supposedly a good quality one.If Rimmers don't want to help you could try a seal kit, but the problem may actually be with the surface finish of the bore. With mine I did notice that the fluid went black pretty quick, even though the slave cylinder was replaced with brand new at the same time (Toyota part) and the pipe flushed through.Good luck with Rimmers....Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIMPUS Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Nick_Jones wrote:Hmm..... that looks like my fairly new (<5k miles) clutch master on the Vitesse. Also leaking..... Wasn't from Rimmers and was much less than £ 77 but was supposedly a good quality one.If Rimmers don't want to help you could try a seal kit, but the problem may actually be with the surface finish of the bore. With mine I did notice that the fluid went black pretty quick, even though the slave cylinder was replaced with brand new at the same time (Toyota part) and the pipe flushed through.Good luck with Rimmers....NickMy friend had also problems with bad quality parts this week !The viscous coupling on his stag started to make a bad noise, 3K miles and 6months old.Rimmers didn't make a deal out of it and just send another part.. Hope they do that with me also ! .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 When I rebuilt my spitfire i fitted a new clutch master cylinder( looks exactly the same).It leaked from the cap when cornering,threw the cap away and fitted an old one,no problem since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIMPUS Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Rimmers emailed back this morning, they are sending a new one ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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