Jproz1167

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Was walking through pickapart and noticed on some Fords the draw fluid from the brake master cylinder resevoir for the clutch. how hard would it be to make an adapter to do this ... has anyone ever done this to their car?

86camaro383

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Thats simple. I would say all you need to do is fine a brake master cylinder resurvior that fits in the bores of the stock master cylinder with a tube that goes to the clutch master.

sofakingdom

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That wouldn't eliminate the master cylinder; all it would eliminate is the reservoir.

So, why in the world would you want to put that stupid Frod crap on your car, anyway? So that when your CLUTCH hydraulic system goes bad, your BRAKES fail TOO ?? Or, when your BRAKES go bad, they take the CLUTCH with them as well? How is that a good idea?

I'm SO glad I don't drive that other brand of car. Thank you for reminding of WHY.

dr1

actually if they figured out how to make it a one way street, where if your brakes fail, you cant operate the clutch, thats not so bad :P
could save you a trip out of the driveway with no brakes, heh

sofakingdom

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That makes me feel REAL SECURE.... that way, when (not if) the brakes fail, you can't even use engine braking to slow the car down.

I just knew there's been some reason why I've been moving over for the last several decades whenever one of that brand of car pulls up behind me, like, ever since one of my little brothers owned one and I saw how scary it was built. I don't like them back there close to me, with no obstacles between me and them, for some odd reason or other...

Maybe I'm just being even more stupid than usual, which I admit is a very real possibility; but, I'm just really struggling with this concept of how adding YET ANOTHER single point of failure that can disable TWO critical life-supporting systems of the car with a single thing breaking, is something I'd want to add to my own vehicle. Help me out here, anybody?

Jproz1167

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how can you loose all your brakes in the event of a failure thats impossible. if the master cyl. for the clutch leaks it drains only one area of the masters resovoir. Or maybe better quality parts is why they can get away with it. Me personally I've never had the clutches hydraulic parts fail ...... but then again I replace them whenever I do my clutch so I dont see why it is a bad idea.

dr1

I've had 2 or 3 brake line failures in my short life time, and they've all been in the driveway, so thats why it came to mind :P
not that an additional resevoir combined to the master cylinder resevoir is going to cause brake failure in the event of clutch failure, or vice versa.. as noted above.. unless you managed to destroy the whole master cylinder, which personally ive not seen happen ;0
going out of your way todo this seems pretty pointless, the little plastic resevoir is tiny and not taking up any useable space

duckmanquacker

Its just frod's unquality is job one scenario they did that to save there money and take yours when there is a problem. welcome to proprietyville(windows OS ring a bell)