[T3] Master Cylinder workover

Jim Adney jadney at VWType3.org
Thu Aug 20 07:45:17 PDT 2015


On 20 Aug 2015 at 8:41, Dennis Stiefel wrote:

> When I got Clementine going back on the road in the fall of 2013. The
> original forty-something year old switches went out about a month after I
> started driving her again. I had some from the parts car and swapped for
> them and they lasted about 6 months.  Then I got some new ones that said
> made in Germany on the box.  About a month after that one of them started to
> leak fluid. Took it back for another one. The FLAPS guy looked at me odd
> when I said I need DOT 5 to go with this. That was a little over a year ago
> and no more issues so far. 

Not sure I understand your whole situation: Did the first 5 switches 
fail with DoT 3/4 or with DoT 5?

In other words, when did you switch to DoT-5? Was that before you put 
her on the road for the first time, or only after the first 5 
switches failed?

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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