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Old 12-11-2019, 10:41 AM
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Apple hydraulics did mine. Good service.
The research I did seemed to favor a brass sleeve rather than stainless the master cylinder bore is very thin wall and the higher stress of a SS sleeve had reports of cracking the casting if the interference fit isn’t perfect.
Did they rebuild your master cylinder or just sleeve it. Anyone rebuild there own master cylinder?
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Old 12-11-2019, 11:29 AM
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Did they rebuild your master cylinder or just sleeve it. Anyone rebuild there own master cylinder?
I've done it. Very easy to do as long as your bore isn't too bad. You might be able to get away with just honing it. If it just needs seals, that's a no brainer.
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