Rear Brake Cylinder Overhaul

Post by **Purbeckfossil** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:03 pm

I suspect a slight leak from a rear brake cylinder. To remove the piston it looks like you have to remove the pin holding the arm for the handbrake cable. My question is: can these cylinders be overhauled or do you have to buy new.

Also, the Haynes manual is less than useful on this topic. Can anyone recommend what is the best reference for maintenance of a '69 Moggy - Thanks

Post by **PSL184** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:20 pm

Kits are available for overhauling the cylinders but they are fairly cheap to but as new items. Genuine parts are not much more expensive than pattern parts either. There is an official workshop manual which which may help you better than the Hatnes manual. If you wait a bit bmcecosse will post you a link I'm sure ;-)

Post by **rob.hardy1** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:42 pm

just looking at the prices on the web, the cost of a new cylinder
£9.45 the cost of a service kit £4.95.

I would suggest IMHO that, being that brakes are possibly one of the more important saftey features of any vehicle, the the extra £4.50 would be money well spent.
(following another post i would point out the prices were on the web and PLUS VAT

Post by **Purbeckfossil** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:04 pm

rob.hardy1 wrote:just looking at the prices on the web, the cost of a new cylinder
£9.45 the cost of a service kit £4.95.

I would suggest IMHO that, being that brakes are possibly one of the more important saftey features of any vehicle, the the extra £4.50 would be money well spent.
(following another post i would point out the prices were on the web and PLUS VAT

Hi Rob, Thanks for that. Which website didn you see those prices? The cylinders I have seen are £25+ so far.

Post by **rob.hardy1** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:58 pm

pm sent

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:09 pm

PM sent with Manual download link.