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Old 01-29-2018, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SwiftDB4 View Post
Do not use a McLeod internal slave cylinder. Had mine fail 3 times on my GT40. Each time the o rings on the swivel joints leaked. Tilton or possibly others have a better design, but an external slave avoids all this. Had my external for 5 years now with no problems.

Wow, I could have written this.

THREE McLoed failures in 3000 miles, switched to an external TOB.

Believe me, taking the gearbox out of a GT40 to repair the TOB is a royal pain, especially to find the problem is a torn o-ring.
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