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After reading a recent post on fuel tank repairs I gave Permanent Painted Coatings in Sydney a call to see if they had anything thay may be suitable for master cylinder cans.
The guy was very helpful and suggested getting a Super Silver Starter Kit and as long as the holes are only pinholes it will provide a fix.
He explained that the silver can't be plated over but in my case it's only the bottoms that need repair so should be ok.
He also said to be careful which brake fluid I use as some can effect the coating. His advice was to go to a brake specialist and they would have what was needed.
I have a couple of reserviors that are a bit dinted, I'll try it on them first and see how they work out. For $35.00 for the starter kit it's worth a try.
Before I get the kit I'd like to hear if anyone has tried this before and what results were achieved.
Cheers, Darcy
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Darcy why don't you solder the holes up
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I thought because the holes are so small and quite a few of them, this might be a better solution and might help prevent future problems.
I might have a practice with one of the not so good ones and see how I go.
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Soldering is possibly the best way to go. If you do, the metal needs to be clean, but don't use a wire buff as for some reason it makes soldering difficult. Physical clean with coarse sand paper or steel wool should clean it up enough. Then chemically clean using spirits of salts raw. The flux required for soldering tin plate is killed spirits of salts, or brand name "Bakers Soldering Fluid". 50/50 plumbers solder is best, or a roll of resin cored solder will do the same job.
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Please be very careful with repairing the tin resevoirs. You don't want to find out the hard way that the repair has failed and you have no brakes.
When did holden start plastic resevoirs ? My FC had some geniune holden plastic resevoirs but I guess they aren't original for FC.
Unless its a show car, i like the safety of being able to easily see the fluid levels through the clear plastic.
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Plastic master cylinders started at HD I think
FB and EK had tins like FE FC
EJ EH had a taller, thinner tin.
Ken
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