I went out to my truck (1999 Disco2 with 123k) today and I noticed a spot of what looked like water under it (right next to the drivers side front wheel). I popped the hood to see if I could see anything leaking and to my surprise I noticed that I had brake fluid coming out of the bottom of the brake reservoir. Can anyone help me try and diagnose where the leak is and how to fix it. As I said it looks like it is coming out of the bottom of the reservoir............ it pours down onto the master cylinder and onto the wheel well then onto the ground. Thanks in advance.

 

You have already diagnosed it.
Time for a master cylinder, most of the time the reservoir is part
of the master cylinder and only comes with the master cylinder.

 

When replacing your master cylinder, first do it right away, and second look inside the booster, if any fluid got in there, it will eat up the rubber and the booster will fail. Wipe out any seepage into the booster a pray it hasn't been in there long. When you are done bleed the entire brake system to get rid of the old brake fluid.

 

Ohhh crap. Always something with these trucks [:@]. Thanks for the help guys. Hey Mike you said do it right the first time. Does that mean that there is something that should be done specially while replacing this part. Also, how difficult is it to replace............ and dont have much knowledge outside of oil changes, minor repairs, etc. so is this type of thing out of my league. Finally where is the cheapest place to get a master cylinder. Dont have much money laying around (student) so its going to have to be a budget buy if there is such a thing on a land rover haha. Thanks again.

 

Call me during the day and I'll walk you thru it.
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