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Thread: Wilwood Brake Reservoir Leaks

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    Wilwood Brake Reservoir Leaks

    Hi,
    I'm unable to prevent the Wilwood plastic brake tank from slowly leaking brake fluid down the front of my pedal box.
    It leaks at the seam where both tank pieces meet probably due to a poor design.
    I've tried very light heat with torch to melt case joint and various other techniques to no avail.
    Is there a single tank reservoir that I can purchase that is single piece tank (metal or plastic) ?
    Thanks
    Jim Ellis

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    Mine did the same until I swapped the clamp for a stainless worm drove hose clamp, so far so good.....
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    Super glue it, that is what I did on one.
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    I had the same problem and called Wilwood about it. They sent me a new replacement reservoir at no cost and it fixed the leak problem.

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    Had the same problem. I used some 5 minute apoxy from Home Depot. Take the reservoir off, apply some apoxy. Push back together and twist back and forth to get good seal. Good luck.

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    Seems like just about everybody's leak... Mine did, so I ordered a set of CNC. No problems since.
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    Fantastic, I've put a stainless clamp on, lets see what happens.

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    Great, if stainless clamp wont hold then it's off to homedepot for some epoxy. Thanks for the help.

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