FJ 600 rear master cylinder snap ring

[JPerez]

Does anyone know where I can get the snap ring for the rear master cylinder assembly? I ordered a rebuild kit and it came with everything but... I missed placed the snap ring and I cant find anyplace online that sells just that piece. Anyone know where I can get one?

[ribbert]

Does anyone know where I can get the snap ring for the rear master cylinder assembly? I ordered a rebuild kit and it came with everything but... I missed placed the snap ring and I cant find anyplace online that sells just that piece. Anyone know where I can get one?

Your local bearing service will have them or your local garage probably has an assortment box of them in the workshop around that size.

[Capn Ron]

Give McMaster a try:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#metric-snap-rings/=qht2wb

Not sure if you're after an internal or external snap ring, but the above referenced page has a couple hundred to pick from in metric alone.  You'll have to do some good measuring of the grove it fits into to find a match...and you'll likely end up with a package of fifty, but you should find what you need for under a tenner and it'll show up in two days.

Cap'n Ron. . .

[FJmonkey]

Send me the diameter, indicate if the snap ring goes over a shaft or internal and groove thickness. I can request samples from work and drop them the mail to you.

[ribbert]

Generous offers and advice abound here but it's making too big a deal of it.

Added to my list yesterday of local bearing shop and corner garage, you can add clutch & brake shop, auto parts/ accessory store (the more serious kind).

It will cost less than a postage stamp, if they charge you at all, and you will come home with it.

This shouldn't be any harder than popping down the street for milk and bread.

Noel

[JPerez]

Thanks guys for all the replies.  I will pop into my local store and see of they have something. I wasnt sure if an auto parts store would carry them since its an old bike and only made for a few years.

[movenon]

Thanks guys for all the replies.  I will pop into my local store and see of they have something. I wasnt sure if an auto parts store would carry them since its an old bike and only made for a few years.

NAPA and Ace hardware has them also.
George

[ribbert]

I wasnt sure if an auto parts store would carry them since its an old bike and only made for a few years.

Circlips (snap rings -sounds like a breakfast cereal for kids) are not FJ, or any other vehicle, specific.
They are sold universally in incremental sizes in imperial and metric, internal and external.
Do not ask for the part by make and model, you need measurements only, or take the parts with you and let them measure them.

The rear master is within a common size range and you local garage should have at least one of these assortments, each box has a size range it covers, depending  on what sort of work they do.
Even I have a box, well the remains of one.



This one even comes with a torch to try and find the one that just zinged past your ear on it's way to the most remote, dimly lit, inaccessible corner of the garage.

BTW, of all the places I mentioned as a likely source, the auto parts store would be last on the list.

Noel

[Capn Ron]

This one even comes with a torch to try and find the one that just zinged past your ear on it's way to the most remote, dimly lit, inaccessible corner of the garage.

Noel

For this reason, my dad always called them "Jesus clips".  You try your best to gently pry them from the groove and they inevitably go sailing past your head while you yell..."JEZUS!!!!"   

Cap'n Ron. . .