Slave cylinders

[stomper]

So I removed the slave cylinder from my IIA this morning, as the seals were leaking quite badly. I don't know how old the one I removed is, as it was installed sometime before I bought it. It is a girling.

I seem to recall a few people having a bad experience with some of the replacements available out there, But I can't find anything in a search of this forum. Any recomendations on which to buy? Proline or Girling, or should I consider a brand not carried by our hosts? I'm ordering tomorrow.

Also, My flex line looks good, But would people recommend replacing it while I have the floors and tunnel already out? I know a few people were discussing stainless steel flex line. Anyone care to share a link for where to buy one, and are they worth it?

[I Leak Oil]

Go with the Girling/Lucas, stay away from the Britpart/aftermarket stuff if you can. Plan on replacing the flex line as well as the hard line if they haven't been apart in a while. The nut at the flex/hard joint usually will rust to the steel pipe and you end up replacing them anyway, just plan to do it while you're there.

[stomper]

And what about stainless steel braided flex lines? Overkill, or should it be considered? Flex line looks good, and the slave was greasy, but looked pretty new, so perhaps it will come apart easy.

[jac04]

Definitely replace the rubber flex hose. No need to go stainless braided, the standard rubber hose will work just fine.
Normally, I would say that your best bet is to go with the Lucas/Girling for the slave cylinder. However, I just had a bad experience with multiple Girling slaves for my SIII. The bores were tapered, causing the piston to stick inside the cylinder. I solved the problem by installing an aluminum body Allmakes slave cylinder. I guess sometimes genuine/OEM isn't always better.

[kwd509]

I am facing the same choices...... What to do? One other option is to resleeve it and then rebuild with the rebuild kit.... Looks like that can be done for $ 60. Anyone have experience or opinion with this? To me it seemed like purist overkill until I heard that quality of replacement parts is not great..... Thoughts?

[stomper]

Thanks for the info, I remembered there being an issue with one of the makers, but I couldn't find any info in the search to tell me which ones were seemingly making bad parts. The Allmakes/britpart price is tempting, but after all the disassembly I had to do to get to it, I think I may try and go original OEM. Perhaps the series IIA slaves didn't have any issues, but everyone seems to have issues with britpart.

[TedW]

And what about stainless steel braided flex lines? Overkill, or should it be considered? Flex line looks good, and the slave was greasy, but looked pretty new, so perhaps it will come apart easy.

That's what I did. The OE lines swell up after 40 years or so, restricting the flow, and should be replaced.

I bought a Goodridge SS flex line from the UK because they weren't available here. It is my understanding that RN sells them now.

How about it, Les? Les???

My slave had a sort of banjo adaptor that allowed the hose to be installed at an angle. When I installed the stainless hose I took it off and screwed the hose straight into the slave.
The first time I pushed in the clutch I thought I didn't have any pressure: truth was that I didn't have any resistance from the fluid trying to squish through the little hole in the banjo. Works wicked swell.

[stomper]

They sell them, but it is only listed as a kit with the front and rear for $79.50. Kind of defeats the purpose to buy the whole set for one line, and then be short one if I put it on the front brakes later.