Clutch Master/Slave Cylinder

[junglie]

I have a 1989 TVR S2 (2.9 Cologne engine) and I can't find any detail in Steve Heath's great book about donor vehicles. I need to replace the Master and/or Slave cylinder and I need to know the donor vehicle (Granada, Sierra, Capri???) or, even better, a part number and manufacturer. With luck I will be on the road again before the end of the weekend!

[Road2Ruin]

Sadly, I beleive, the cutch cylinder and slave cylinder were bespoke items. However it is still possible to pick them up for a reasonable amount. www.tvrcarparts.com sells them. I got mine from there last year and think its was about £100 for the lot.

Peter

[ketvrin]

Hi Daniel

have you seen the Alternative parts List ? it does show some part numbers which might help your search.

K

http://www.parkersteve.dsl.pipex.com/sparts.html

also for possible alternatives see page 4 of...

http://www.nfauto.co.uk/download/cataloguejuly2005...

Edited by ketvrin on Friday 15th February 11:23

[clarenceboddiger]

If you have a slave to rebuild, you can get a seal kit off ebay from a member named berrill2005 , if you contact him he should put you one on (or whatever).

[petclub]

Hi, RT racing did a PDF of parts which I posted a link to on here somewhere about 18 months ago.

IIRC the parts can be either Lockheed or Girling. I replaced both mine but one of them had a slightly different size case. We got over that by taking the new workings out and putting them back in the old case. I hope that makes sense (I'm no mechanic - clearly)

[petclub]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Found the thread!

[jimed]

I'd put a new set of seals in my clutch master cylinder a few years ago and it started to weep slightly last year so decided to get a new cylinder. I spent ages trying to find one and eventuallly got one which was the correct bore etc but when I had it fitted I found the connection on the top of the cylinder for the pipe to the slave cylinder was too small. I had to take out the plunger assy from the new one and put it into the old one which incidentally didn't appear to have any scoring or any other faults and it has been fine. You may be able to get away with new seals which aren't hard to fit. The alternative is to pay the money and get cylinder from a specialist like TVR Car Parts - at least you know it'll fit whereas I paid about £50 and only effectively used new seals which I could have got for about £10.
Jim

[grumpytvr]

The master cylinder was originally Triumph I believe (Although I could be wrong). Repair kits were available for it a couple of years ago, I got one from a Triumph specialist at the NEC Classic Car Show. I normally keep the serial numbers and such like for this type of stuff so I'll have a look whether I've got them and post them.

One word of warning, if you do go down the rebuild route, replace the spring. I had one catastrophically fail about 2 years after rebuilding the mastercylinder causing the clutch jam on at a set of traffic lights!

I eventually replaced my original master cylinder with a landrover unit and swapped the actuating rods over. It had the same hole diameters / spacing to fit the bulkhead, but needed the hydraulic union on the clutch pipe changed. I seem to remember it cost me around £10 for the master cylinder so changing the union / clutch pipe was well worth it.

I dare say the slave cylinder is probably Truimph or something similar also. I've only ever rebuilt this with a repair kit (from David Geralds I think) and now have a standby spare repair kit from Ebay.

Best bet would be to take the offending item off the car, take it along to a local motor factor and get them to match it up. If they don't have it / can't get it, they might be able to point you in the direction of a specialist who may be able to help. It worked for me and its how I ended up at a Landrover specialist buying a master cylinder for £10!

Another option would be to try somewhere like Moss or Rimmer brothers who specialise in spares Triumph /BL parts.

[v8sss]

Master cylinder is Triumph (TR5 & 6, available from Moss Europe for approx £7.


Christian.

[Gerald-TVR]

Hi Petclub
Couldnt find the partslist on the RT Racing web site, do you have a copy of the PDF by any chance, TA in advance

[greymrj]

v8sss, do you happen to know if the S1, Cologne V6 is the same cylinder? If so I will get one in stock. Are the master and slave from the same source?

[jimed]

Is the TR master cylinder the same as regards the union connection for the pipe to the slave cylinder??
Jim

[petclub]

Hi Gerald-TVR, I should have a copy somewhere....

The problem will be surgically removing my children from the other computer!

I should also have a paper copy in the garage, I'll try over this weekend.

Dave

[jimed]

Just been looking at the Moss site re the TR5/6 master cylinder - the price is £44.96 (incl VAT). Still not sure if the clutch pipe will fit it though.
Jim

[Gerald-TVR]

Hi Dave Ta (in advance)

[petclub]

Not found it yet but I'll have another go tonight!