914Rubber "easy" brake master cylinder still produced? Options

[burlybryan]

I replaced my MC with a new 19mm version 2 years ago and the damn thing is leaking fluid. I'll sell the car before I go through the trauma of trying to replace the evil thing again. I checked 914Rubber site to see if they still carried their version with the "easy" installation mods and they don't show it (or even the regular one). Anyone know if this has gone the way of the dodo?

[jim_hoyland]

Can’t the faulty plug be replaced ??

[fiacra]

Can’t the faulty plug be replaced ??

@jim_hoyland

Maybe, but if I'm going to the trouble of pulling out an MC that has a manufacturing defect I'm not going to repair it I'm going to replace it with a (hopefully) better part. To an experienced eye, and unfortunately my eye is now experienced, this is an obvious flaw and it should not have gotten through quality control. So that leads to the question, what else slipped through? I don't really want to find out. To be clear, I'm not knocking the supplier. I have lots of good parts that came from 914Rubber. I turned down their offer to replace it because I chose to go another way. The MC sat on the shelf for 3 years before I installed it so I had no expectation of it being under warranty. It was good of them to offer to replace it. However, lesson learned. I get all my brake parts from PMB now.

I recall from reading Brent's build thread that he had the same issue with his 914Rubber MC. There was a suggestion that you could peen the center of the plug and that would cause it to spread out and seal, so I suppose if you wanted to you could go that way. That's not how I would approach this problem. Also, if that doesn't work then you are pulling the MC again. No thanks!