In response to the following posting, if memory serves, that ancient parts
replacement tip about the VW Bus-Transporter Master Cylinder was one of
those last resort make-do "fixes" that were once necessary at the close of
the 60s and throughout the 70s, when actual Amphicar parts sources grew
sparse in the aftermath of the failure of the Amphicar Corporation and its
successor-receiver Ranchero Motors, but before Gordon Imports came on the
scene.
Such "fixes" were often described in detail in the Newsletters published by
the former Amphicar Club, whose President was the late Jim Nichols, Jr.
Unfortunately, those detailed Newsletter descriptions of the necessary
drillings, machinings, adaptors and other modifications often necessary to
make such "fixes" work were never transcribed in the "Universal Parts
Listing" that was once a central feature of the current Club's website when
its President-for-Life was Jeff Sweet. This explains the great big fat
explanatory Danger-Will-Robinson disclaimer currently displayed right at the
head of the "Universal Parts Tips" webpage, still hosted on the Club site at
http://www.amphicar.com/uni.htm along with a plea to update this kind of
parts substitution info at
http://www.amphicar.net/partstips.html .
On the one hand, sure, I could probably dig the original Newsletter article
describing this old "fix" out the former Club's Newsletters, but with proper
Amphicar master cylinders available for only about a hundred bucks, I'm more
than a little ambivalent about perhaps thereby providing just enough
information to perhaps get somebody killed with some slapdash make-do
solution that's no longer really necesary. I mean, brakes ain't really
where you want to skimp or "make do" if you don't have to, right?
~Bilgey~
----- Original Message -----
Hello everyone,
I had the local parts store get in a 64-67 Transporter Master
cylinder, to see if it would work on my amphi (as I do need one), and
after looking at it I was wondering if......
1. will it actually work well with the rest of the original system?
2. can the original fluid container still be used?
3. are the extra line fittings on the master simply capped off?
4. which fittings are to be used and which ones capped off?
Thanks,
Brad Walsh
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