Well it turned out to be the slave cylinder, bought a rebuild kit and so far
so good. The only problem I had was bleeding the darn line by myself. I have
a vacuum pump, and used it before successfully, but this time I must had
leak in the system. So I left the rear end up on jack stands overnight and
the next day when I got home from work the system had bled itself. Took the
bleeder valve completely out and to my surprise fluid was leaking out. Being
a doubting Thomas I went up front and gave the peddle a few pushes and could
hear fluid dripping into the catch basin I had below the unit. Tightened
everything up and topped of the fluid and off I went.
Thanks to all that chimed in.
Paul
85WWW, who coined that one?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Paul <wognacious@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know my master cylinder was going south on me and yesterday my girlfriend
> called me to let me know that there was a large puddle of liquid under my
> precious Westy. When I asked her under what part of the Westy was the puddle
> she said it was kinda under the "wheelie thing" at the back. By that she
> meant the rear axle. So if the master cylinder failed, broke or whatever you
> would call it why would the brake fluid be there? Adding brake fluid to the
> reservoir and pumping did nothing, peddle just goes right to the floor with
> no resistance.
> Thoughts please.
> TIA,
> Paul Rogers
> 85 WWW
>