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Adapt Master Cylinder and Reservoir Setup

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What happens here

The creator wanted to replace an old master cylinder but found that new ones have different thread depths. He wanted to use existing billet reservoirs but they were too wide for the available space. He found a plastic reservoir but it was too wide. He then decided to harvest the guts from an old billet reservoir, cut off the end of a billet bung, and will weld it to create a custom, compact reservoir mount for a smaller plastic reservoir.

Goal: Create a custom, compact brake fluid reservoir mount.

Tools and materials

  • Band Saw Portaband — Cutting billet bung
  • Billet Bungs — Modified for reservoir mount
  • Billet Reservoirs — Existing reservoirs that were too wide
  • Drill — Drilling hole in billet bung
  • Grinder — Shaping the cut billet bung
  • New Master Cylinder Tilton — Replacement master cylinder
  • Old Master Cylinder — Original master cylinder
  • Plastic Reservoirs — Smaller reservoirs for the custom setup
  • Welder — Welding custom mount

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know now you know I'm using these MSD crimpers for this and they're about the coolest thing I have ever used they make stuff look like it came from the factory heck of a lot better than you know having an experience with butt connectors and just squishing them with the squishy plier deal this is like this is Real Deal stuff I highly recommend having one of these also get you a box of weather pack connectors on standby got these ones from Mr Gasket just having your garage you never know what you're going to be wiring up like a you know a lot of people have light bars and stuff there's so many things that you can do so much better if you have these tools at your disposal than just hardwire and something you have to cut out later this pile right here is a perfect example of a timec consuming nonsense that has been tying me down I wanted to change out the old Master cylinders I figured it'd be easier to get new ones and to rebuild them so I got these was going to move the old reservoirs well the thread is different it's the same thread but Tilton doesn't put their threads till the very bottom so the reservoir I had did not work I was able to find another one of these plastic ones but they are too wide to fit next to each other so I need to have one of them be smaller be this one this be the small one nowhere local has these laying around cuz most teams stopped using the individual ones they had like a little Bank it was Mount remotely and I didn't want to go to that whole system I don't want to get this done now so I harvested G side of this thing that holds it together it's just this bung that goes in there threads into that I thought huh maybe I could modify the old Billet one and put this in it so pretend I didn't cut this already that thread is not deep enough to go into my new master cylinder so I thought I could just move that bung over to this thing so I cut the old end of it off as evenly as I could with the qu band here and I'm going to make it as flat as I can to make up with the O-ring and I'll just put that bung into here and I'll have it perfect fit same day and I don't have to spend any money which is always a plus turned out pretty nice it's even all the way across be a nice surface for that O-ring to sit on now I'm going to drill the hole and put it in worked out pretty good oh how about that wow can you hear that sounds like time and money saved now I'm

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