Help to ID 63 brake master cylinder

[Wj H.]

Gents: i have a 63 coupe. Brake master cylinder leaking from back. I have not pulled it yet, but it is not a typical 63 thumb screw design. Looks like the remans you see on ebay when you punch in 1963 Corvette master cylinder (picture of lookalike below). However, mine says Wagner Lockheed underneath and number appears to be
FE 493808. I am willing to stick with this for awhile until I can find a correct one, but I cannot find any reference to a Wagner # even close to this number.


Like I said it looks just like this, even with the bleed valve, but this pic is not a Wagner Lockheed. Any idea what mine is/ from and do you think a 64 rebuild kit would work. Thanks,

[Rick A.]

Re: Help to ID 63 brake master cylinder

well, definitely not original to your car

[Joe L.]

Re: Help to ID 63 brake master cylinder

Gents: i have a 63 coupe. Brake master cylinder leaking from back. I have not pulled it yet, but it is not a typical 63 thumb screw design. Looks like the remans you see on ebay when you punch in 1963 Corvette master cylinder (picture of lookalike below). However, mine says Wagner Lockheed underneath and number appears to be
FE 493808. I am willing to stick with this for awhile until I can find a correct one, but I cannot find any reference to a Wagner # even close to this number.


Like I said it looks just like this, even with the bleed valve, but this pic is not a Wagner Lockheed. Any idea what mine is/ from and do you think a 64 rebuild kit would work. Thanks,

WJ-------


If the number "FE 493808" is a casting number, you're likely not going to find it shown in any catalog or other available reference. It won't be a part number and might not even be a Wagner number, at all (i.e. it might be a foundry number of some sort).

I have not heard of the "Lockheed" attached to "Wagner" for MANY years. What I would say you have on the car is an older, aftermarket, service-replacement type master cylinder. It's very possible, though, that Wagner (now part of Federal-Mogul) continues to produce master cylinders of the same configuration as the one on your car and that's what you're seeing for sale (although they might not be branded Wagner).