[DeTomaso] Master Clutch Cylinder

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Trevor,

I am suspicious that there is something either fundamentally wrong with your (?) choice of brake fluid or there is something really funny with your MCC/SCC system or you have phenomenally bad luck with clutch master cylinders......... I have not changed clutch master cylinders in the course of many, many years.

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


---- Trevor Fougere <trevor at fougere.com> wrote:
> My third MCC is beginning to fail. The first, that came with the car was
> shot so I replaced it with one from Hall. It proved to be faulty, the
> internals rapidly disintegrating and turning the reservoir
> into a dark grey pool of suspended particulates of rubber. So, I got one
> from Pantera Peformance, flushed the lines...installed it...and got 10k
> miles out of it.
>
> Now it too is failing...no pressure in the clutch every 10th shift or so
> ..comes right back though with no more than one pump of the
> pedal....reservoir once again a dark grey and full of suspended
> particulates.
>
> Not how I envisioned double clutching my way through life.
>
> So I'm asking for recommendations on my course of action. Buy a
> replacement? Rebuild the one I have as a spare? Rebuild and re-use what's
> on there? Where's the best place to get a "new" one?
> Are rebuilt MCC's generally good?
>
> Is this all luck of the draw? ....as this now seems to be the Achilles heel
> of an otherwise great running car...this will be the 4th MCC on it in under
> 2 yrs.
>
> Thoughts and opinions are welcome as I need to address this right
> away....down time sucks.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Trevor
> #3797
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