Forget The Test And Fill Plugi I Made Up One For My M/c

[JIPJOBXX]

I went down to Lowes today and got a straight through lamp nipple, two nuts, two washers and a  1 to1-1/2" rubber plug.    I just drilled the plug to fit the nipple and install a flat washer on each side of the rubber plug and installed at both ends the fastners to tighten up the plug.  Worked like a charm and I just wanted to pass this on to anyone interested in making up a device to fill your M/C  and not run out of fluid in the process.  Oh I forgot that I installed a peice of clear polly tubbing to the pipe nipple with a funnel at the other end.

Edited September 11, 2013 by JIPJOBXX

[Plymouthy Adams]

what you going do about absorbing moisture from the air, what did you do the vent so to allow a bit of fluid over and above normal fill...seems like a few details are either missing form your design or the blurb..

[JIPJOBXX]

This just a over fill for the  reservor because in  M/C you can pump the M/C about four or five times when bleeding the system and then your out of brake fluid in the M/C.  This is just a larger reservior no less no more!

[JIPJOBXX]

And its alot more convinent to fill it at the door window hieght than poreing it down by the access cover for the M/C. Also the way the M/C is mounted to the frame there is no area to attach a gagging device from the bottom of the M/C.   I will have a picture of this device tomorrow but its to hot now to play about outside 90 degrees!

[Plymouthy Adams]

then not a remote fill say on the inner fender....gotcha...!

[JIPJOBXX]

Here is my beauty! Works and now I do not need another M/C

[_shel_ny]

First: why do you need this? How often do you need to bleed your brakes?

 

Second: do you put a pan, cardboard, or cat litter under the M/C to catch the overflow that will be spilled when you remove this contraption?

 

Third: how does this eliminate the need for another M/C

[JIPJOBXX]

First of all its just a thing I thought about and yes of course you do not change out your m/c that often.  Second you can watch the clear polly tubbing and pretty much see the level in the contration.  I just watch it till the fluid is in the tube and then remove the unit.  And of course if you need an enema you can use this also for this purpose>

[plyroadking]

I've often wondered about making something like that permanently and leaving on the car. I don't think my '40 has a cut out in the floor so i usually have to fit the bottle around the shift linkage, steering column, and wires. I have a phantom leak that requires topping off the mc about every two months. My '30 has a reservoir on the fire wall and it sure would make it easy to add fluid if i ever had to.

[De Soto Frank]

I used to have a '61 Willys pick-up: 6-226 4wd Utility Truck.

 

The MC was under the floor, between the pedals, and NO cutout in the cab floor / toe-board for access to re-fill.

 

To add fluid, you had to crawl under the truck, and reach up between the MC and the cab floor,, and between the bell-housing and frame rail, and working by feel, get a open-end wrench on the square plug of the MC cap, unscrew the cap, then fidget a FULL pint bottle of brake fluid up in there, and basically keep pouring until it over-flowed.  Did I mention that the MC was also jammed-up right behind the Ross cam & Lever steering gear  ???   

 

W-O  did almost everything possible to make servicing the MC difficult, short of welding a stee; box around the damned thing !     

 

I was going to rig-up a fire-wall filler / reservoir a la pre-1934 Chrysler Products or British Girling systems,  but I wound-up selling the truck before getting around to that improvement.

[Scruffy49]

Permanent remote fill? Easy, use the clutch master cylinder cup from a Toyota Celica (RWD), Toyota pickup or a Ranger. Whatever is handy in the closest junk yard. Get some extra tubing and a small barbed fitting from the auto parts store of choice. Drill and tap the Mopar mc lid, add tubing, mount clutch mc cup to your firewall or inner fender. About $15 worth of materials. Or you can order nice shiny aluminum remote fill components from any of a dozen aftermarket brake companies.

 

I feel for you guys with cars, at least the truck mc is out in the open. Pain to get a wrench on or to fill, but any spills hit the ground instead of the vehicle's floor/carpet.

 

I'm cheating on my truck's brakes. Ranger rear axle and mechanical ABS rear brakes, Ranger parking brake system since I don't trust the stock unit,  Ranger master cylinder (maybe with booster), front disc kit (have not decided which one yet) on stock beam axle. Using what I have on hand, and since i have a complete (wrecked) 92 Ranger parts roach in the pasture... keep flip flopping which old truck will get the HVAC system, seats and 5 speed...