Fluid on the floor: What could it be?, (time to take a brake?)Slight mystery upon returning from Okteenerfest Options

[DRPHIL914]

Here is the MC that came out , leaking from front seal

[DRPHIL914]

Another view

I will probably order a rebuild kit for this .

[Mikey914]

Drop me a call tomorrow. You do want to put the abrasion netting on the cloth hydraulic tube nest to the firewall. Not sure why it's not there. Hopefully you got it in the kit. The shorter nipple will also be the one at the firewall if yo have the 2 sizes. We have just started making the one shorter size to remove the possibility installing backwards. The seals are Viton, and do crush down. Should only be one size on those.

Mark

[DRPHIL914]

Drop me a call tomorrow. You do want to put the abrasion netting on the cloth hydraulic tube nest to the firewall. Not sure why it's not there. Hopefully you got it in the kit. The shorter nipple will also be the one at the firewall if yo have the 2 sizes. We have just started making the one shorter size to remove the possibility installing backwards. The seals are Viton, and do crush down. Should only be one size on those.

Mark

O-rings are too big I think is the problem- I was very careful to try and keep them in place as they compress it either they are too soft too big or both to not stay in place and make a good seal when tightening them.

I only got ones size of fitting both are the short variety, but that seems to be fine.
Netting was left off by accident , I will probably put it on when I pull this out to re do it.

If there is a pipe thread tape, like plumbers tape that will hold up to brake fluid I think that would be smart, it would seal the threads better than just the o-rings.
Also barbs on the nipples would help keep hose on while trying to get it installed .
Anyway will talk to you tomorrow.
Only question I have also would be about the orientation of the hoses. Does it matter which goes to the front and which to the back? Seems both are low pressure one supply and one return, I don’t know which is the in and which is the out, but I would not think it would but I’d like to know if it does, will have to recheck this on mine.

[DRPHIL914]

Spoke with Mark and we are pretty sure the wrong o-rings are in my kit, but also felt that we could retry installing it by using Teflon tape on the threads, so I did this and reinstalled fittings, after fighting with the hose clamps getting them tight enough to keep them from popping off is an issue with the hose due to the lack of flexibility of the hose.
I would do this next time with a different supply hose, something a bit softer and more flexible would make this process a LOT easier. But I can tell you the third time taking this out and putting it back in went pretty quick, by that I mean about 5 minutes to loosen and disconnect the lines, pull MC, reinstall and connect 5-10 min only BUT fought the Dan hoses and trying to get them slid back onto the nipple took 15-20, .if not for that I’d say I could do it again start to finish total in less than an hour- now bleeding the system will be the next step so I hope we can get that done tonight.
So far no more leaking or seeping past the oring and the tapes threads.