Brake reservoirs

[Car-Nut]

Anyone bought new reservoirs recently

I here the plastic ones currently out there are of poor quality, from a suppliers mouth.

I also hear there are aluminium ones out there anyone know where to source them

[Car-Nut]

Even though I plan to replace my square plastic reservoirs (4.2 stye) with round aluminium reservoirs the first price for aluminium reservoirs was £134 ++ per bottle.

Ive now been quoted less than half that, when I get them I will feed back

In the meantime I had to replace the one failed bottle but was having problems finding bottles that suppliers were happy
with

In the end I have found a supplier who has the reservoirs which are made by the company which originally made them for
Jaguar.

I'll keep you posted re there quality while i replace my failed one this saturday....

If only I could work on cars all day instead of flying the desk

[e600]

Hi
I have just built a Lightweight replica and made reservoirs from Aluminuim tube and bought premade tops, you can see the finished result on my website www.patsetypes.co.uk. I would think a local small engineering company would want £50 for this type of work.

Regards
Pat

[Car-Nut]

Hi
I have just built a Lightweight replica and made reservoirs from Aluminuim tube and bought premade tops, you can see the finished result on my website http://www.patsetypes.co.uk. I would think a local small engineering company would want £50 for this type of work.

Regards
Pat

Pat,

Fantatic site, some great projects

I have actually sourced a man who can at £50 a reservoir like you say.

Thanks for your post

[e600]

Hi

Before you commit, where are you in the country, as there is an excellent small company local to me who will do the work for less than you have been quoted. He is based near Reading and the company name is Spot on Controls, 01189737973. Try him first.

Regards
Pat

[Car-Nut]

Hi

Before you commit, where are you in the country, as there is an excellent small company local to me who will do the work for less than you have been quoted. He is based near Reading and the company name is Spot on Controls, 01189737973. Try him first.

Regards
Pat

Im in Lancashire, I will deffinatly try him first, did he make your bracket as well

[e600]

Hi

I done the bracketry, he done the machining and ali welding, nice guy, his name is Hugh

Regards
Pat

[Geordie]

Assistance sought please.......

Brake reservoir next to clutch reservoir; the cabling for the sensor does it have seperate of wires in the wiring loom? If so where might one locate them? Or is it wired in parallel with the sensor on the other brake reservoir?

[baz234]

I see I am not the only E-Type owner who has suffered with inferior fluid reservoirs. I have had both brake fuid bottles fail since restoring my car in 2008, with the resulting consequences of the brake fuid stripping off the paint work. A lot of work correcting all the damage etc. - most annoying. It would be great if someone would engineer the alluminium bottle with stainless brackets to fit, I am sure they would enough to make it pay, especially if they were also sold through the Classic Jaguar Suppliers. I have seen some fitted on JD Classic E-Types, but I expect they are an arm and leg from them. I'm not sure what you do with the wiring that is normally linked up the caps, to show low fluid warning if you went down the allumininum route. I notice that car nut has found the original manufacturer of the plastic bottles who supplied Jaguar, but he didn't mention where they were. Has anyone also suffered from sweating rubber brake hoses?
Baz.