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Offline FalconGuy

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Well...It all started around 6 weeks ago when the first time EVER I saw the brake light come on in my U12. So I pulled into a servo, looked at the resevoir (which was just on 'Min'), bought some brake fluid, filled it up, and thought nothing more of it. :-[

Then about two weeks later, on it came again, so I filled the thing up again (strange, I thought) but left it at that. Then it started happening every 5 days or so, fill it up and then on comes light again until I had went through 500Ml of fluid... :'(

Then the other day I went to Coolangatta (thankfully in Dad's Sprint) and left the Pintara at home with a recently filled resevoir (another bottle of fluid was purchased), I went to get into the car Friday arvo, and the brake light was on again 'Hey Wait! I just filled that' so I got out to check the resevoir and noticed a huge pool of fluid all over the concrete and the resevoir was empty again, within 24 hours!

SO the short of it is I went to NRMA and they took it in this morning, thinking it probably was a line. Just got off the phone with them then, it seems that it was all leaking out the rear of the Master Cylinder and i was pretty lucky to have ANY brakes (Yes, I was driving it over the weeked). They rang around to try and find another master cylinder, but NO-ONE had an non-OEM one, and the cheapest quote they got was $890! So instead they got a 'Seal Kit' and rebuilt the Master Cylinder as well as put on and repack a new CV joint as the boot was badly torn.

All up this little excursion cost me around $350 (inc CV boot etc), which may be expensive, buit before you all flame me, please remember I am in the middle of no-where and there isn't really much competition for spare parts or workshops and I know that the guys down here do a bloody good job.

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Re: Losing Brake Fluid Reglarily is Bad...AND expensive
« Reply #1 on: Mar 7, 2005, 04:04PM »
yeah i've had that happen before. like you i just got the master cylinder repair kit and its been about 6 or 7 months and its only just moved about .5cm below the max line.  its a bitch huh? but hey, at least the metal just uner it will never rust eh? lol :P
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