Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Removing master cylinder reservoir question and FOA good experience

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

And PS to Rob's comments:

Soften the plastic a bit with really hot water soaked towels.

Soaking the plastic in hot water is the factory recommended
way of installing the reservoirs (sp?) on Wilwood cylinders.

Hans.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Robert W. Garven Jr. <rgarven [at] gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Wade, is a great guy and has helped me many times. I removed my res
> once and was told the same thing. I just sucked the fluid out and
> pulled straight up on it. It was amazingly tough
> I spent about a week trying to clean it out as one side is hard to get
> into. I ended up through advice i received here i think putting a few
> small ball bearings in that side and filled with water
> shaking it around to get out the stains! and this was on a 75! I think
> yours will come out, put towels around in case any fluid gets on your
> paint!! There are two outlets so dont pry at an angle just
> pull straight up!
>
> Rob
>
> Robert W. Garven Jr.
> rgarven [at] gmail.com
>
>
>  "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special
> vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for
> those lucky few". Enzo Ferrari
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Robert Rehkopf wrote:
>
>> My 328 has a brake fluid leak in one of the two rubber grommets that
>> attach
>> it to the master cylinder. I was on a trip and the brake failure
>> light came
>> on because of low on brake fluid. Wade at FOA (great guy) had the
>> grommets
>> in stock but said it was likely the plastic reservoir would be
>> broken when
>> it was removed to replace the leaking grommet. Any tricks to soaking
>> the
>> grommets so you don't break the reservoir when you remove it? I
>> drove the
>> car back because I couldn't spend an extra two days in HotLanta, one
>> to
>> break it and one to order the reservoir from New Jersey, so I have
>> to get it
>> fixed in Memphis. I bought the grommets I just need the reservoir
>> removed in
>> one piece.
>>
>> I stopped by FOA twice, once on the way to Florida because of the
>> brake
>> light and once on the way back and both times they worked on my car
>> right a
>> way to get me back on the road. Although they didn't find the brake
>> leak on
>> the first visit, because I'm sure they thought I was just low on
>> fluid, they
>> quickly responded and helped me out. Overall a good experience with
>> FOA. I
>> wish I would have known there was another dealer in Tampa I would have
>> brought it by there, after knowing it just wasn't normal brake fluid
>> usage.
>>
>> Please respond offline to CaptRehkopf [at] comcast.net with any
>> suggestion for
>> removing the reservoir.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Rehkopf
>>
>>
>>
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