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rexjan(at)bigpond.com
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: Matco Brakes

Hi ! Guys,

                    my MKIV has MC-1 Matco Mfg master cylinders like I suspect most Kitfox's do. My  cylinders also have dust boots but Matco can't supply these and in fact tell me  they were not supplied for the last twelve months of production. I think this is  very poor as the cylinder is right in front of the sole of your shoe just wating  for dirt to drop onto the reservoir top plate and work it's way down the shaft  as their is no seal at this point, See Master Cylinder diagram on Matco Mfg  website.  www.matcomfg.com  go  to Technical Support then Master Cylinder etc etc. In the middle of the page  about half way down you can see a diagram of the MC-1 master cylinder. Click on  this to enlarge and you'll see the MC-12300 dust boot. You can get rebuild kits  but no boot is included or available from Matco.

   My dust boots  have got very sticky either with age or perhaps due to using Mil-5606 fluid. I  am not sure which but I know they use Buna-N "O" rings to live with this fluid  so perhaps the boots were not Buna-N. 

   Anyway due the  boots being sticky I have eventually poked a hole in both of them trying to get  them pushed out straight again after checking the fluid. So I need new boots. I  suspect I'm not the only one and it appears some don't even have any boots at  all.

   Well what I have  done is approach Don James at JBM Industries. They are the guys that make those  replacement carby sockets for the Rotax motors that don't crack like the  originals. Anyway JBM don't make these boots at this time but it looks like they  may well do if they can when I send them a sample. I'll let you know if this  happens as I suspect it will. Then if any of you just want boots in  the first place or to replace sticky or damaged ones you will then know you can  do that.

                                                                                                                                                    Rex 

                                                                                                                                                       Australia.



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Glenn Horne

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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: Matco Brakes

I would like to have a set for my  cylinders.

 Glenn Horne Model II 582

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