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The red powder coat arrived. I tried to use it by hand and just fill it in and flatten it out. It didn't work so great. The H is lower than the outside rim so I couldn't just slide a flat blade across the top. I tried to just be very delicate and uncover the H with some q-tips, that worked. So I then carefully used the flat blade (plastic ruler and wooden pencil) to level out the rest of the powder. I thought I got it pretty good. The results are not that great though. The red is a little brighter than the original one (again an extra I bought). I'd think the old one is likely faded.




I am going to spray (paint) some clear coat over the messed up powder to see how it turns out. Then I will probably just blast all of the old powder off and re try the red. My next attempt I will spray the whole part and then try to remove the powder from the outside and the H logo. I'm not going to re apply the chrome because it is in very limited supply. I think they are discontinuing the super chrome. Supposedly there is a replacement in the works.

Good new/bad news on the master cylinder. I double checked and I don't think that its moved yet. I had it in the press to keep some force on it and I had a block of wood underneath. The noise I heard was probably the wood compressing. I did however double check how it went together and found I hadn't taken it all the way apart yet. All I had to do was buy a 21mm wrench and use some elbow grease and it came apart. Now when I put it in the ATF (which isn't filled enough to cover the reservoir openings) the fluid flows through the side and up into the reservoir part. Hopefully that means with some more soaking it will come loose. I also found a place that has a rebuild kit. It's in europe though so shipping is a minimum of 27.50 euros (30.97 US)



The manual shipping status changed as well. Says its in Iowa now.