Master Cyl, need sleeves g

[Burd]

I’ve been following the saga daily. everything has to be getting scratched up, and the risk of spilt fluid too. Last thing on the 74 SD to be done. He did find a nos 74 complete unit on eBay. I’ll post what white post does for him.

[Burd]

And the saga continues. They emailed him a pre paid label to ship back for the third time, they both agreed on a fix or a refund this time. What saved my friend is he has a good master, this was all to get the correct casting for 1974. They kept saying it’s your car, not the master we sleeved. But it is. So let’s see.

[Jonesy]

Hmmm, thats really odd as I have been also having similar issues with my rebuilt master that I sent and had them resleeve.

Makes me wonder now. I had one sent out and got it back. Bench bled it, did everything by the book. No go. Then I figured it has to be something with the Master. So I bought another and had it sent there and just got it back. I just need to try this again on this one I just got.

[Burd]

They said bench test it with gauges. But under load it doesn’t hold. I’m curious what they find.
When I did mine years ago, I painted it cast, its wrong, should be black. I’m tried if people saying, hey that’s wrong. It I hate to take it all apart just for paint.

[CSS1970396]

Originally Posted by Jonesy

Hmmm, thats really odd as I have been also having similar issues with my rebuilt master that I sent and had them resleeve.

Makes me wonder now. I had one sent out and got it back. Bench bled it, did everything by the book. No go. Then I figured it has to be something with the Master. So I bought another and had it sent there and just got it back. I just need to try this again on this one I just got.

When you installed in you car the Brake pedal go to the floor?

[Burd]

That’s what he said. It’s not my master, it’s a friends. Then they put the other master on, it works.

[Burd]

It was the sleeve, they are going re sleeve it again, they weren’t that friendly on the phone, they said they would ship when it’s done. Wouldn’t give exact time. I do t think I’d send my parts to them.

[RPOLS3]

I remember a few years back someone here (maybe Tim S) mentioned that your local NAPA store has the ability to rebuild and return your original master cylinders and calipers. I am in the process of correcting some things on my car among them the master cylinder and calipers I removed and saved years ago. It took my local store about a week or two to verify up the chain of command that they could still actually do this since nobody really asks for this. Once verified it took about three weeks to turn them around. I will still have to detail them as they don't do a great job of painting them (they came back with just a quick thin shot of cast iron gray) but it was pretty economical and I got my original stuff back. They tag each piece and have to walk it thought the rebuild process - you also have to pay special freight as well. The calipers were $60 each, the master was $90 (they don't do the lids) and the freight was $80 for everything both ways. Will advise how they work when installed in another month or two.

[njsteve]

If you do send your casting via the local Napa shop DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR ORIGINAL LID. They do not replate them or care what lid they give you back, regardless of whether you get your original casting rebuilt and returned. It happened to me years ago. I made the mistake of including the original lid and got a generic one back.

[RPOLS3]

Originally Posted by njsteve

If you do send your casting via the local Napa shop DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR ORIGINAL LID. They do not replate them or care what lid they give you back, regardless of whether you get your original casting rebuilt and returned. It happened to me years ago. I made the mistake of including the original lid and got a generic one back.

Funny you say that - I intentionally did not include ANY lid (as my original is out being re-plated) and when they returned it I got a generic cast iron gray painted lid on it.