Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:00:54 -0700
Reply-To: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
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From: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Brake problem
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Jere,
So does this mean you replaced the wheel cylinders
when you put in the new shoes? And yes I too put the
shoes in wrong the first time I did it but caught the
problem before I finshed the job?
gary
--- Jere Hawn <jbrschawn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The pedal does not go all the way to the floor, well
> at I have not sat there
> long enough for it to get there after a four minutes
> I give up The
> emergency brake works fine. The van stops nicely.
> No fluid loss
>
> The rear brakes... I fixed them in Mar. I though I
> was going though pads on
> the front too quickly so I checked the rears and I
> found that I had put one
> the springs on upside down so they were not
> adjusting, the spring coil was
> holding the adjusting nut in place. In short the
> drum look very nice and
> the shoes hardly have any signs of wear (as of Mar).
> I'll try adjusting
> them this week end.
>
> Thanks
> Jere
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gary hradek [mailto:hradek@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:40 AM
> To: Vanagon Mailing List
> Cc: jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET
> Subject: Brake problem
>
> Jere,
> "My pedal fades very very slowly" Does this
> mean
> the pedal goes to the floor? Does it stop the van?
>
> Does it feel soft? Does the emergency brake work
> well? "if your not loosing fluid anywhere"
> I am guessing that you did not take the
> drums off to look at the back brakes. It is a good
> idea to change your master cylinder from time to
> time
> but I would look at the rear wheel cyclinder next.
> If you have the cash buy a pair from bus depot and
> perhaps some new shoes for daddy since your are in
> there anyway. More than likely your rear brakes
> are
> out of adjustment. You might be lucky and can get
> by
> just by hand adjusting the shoes without pulling the
> drums but sooner or later you will need to pull the
> drums and fix the problem. Ignore the book about
> pulling the hubs. Just pull the drums and leave
> your
> big nuts alone. gary
> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:36:31 -0700
> From: Jere Hawn <jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Subject: Brake problem
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Can anyone provide some assistance on this brake
> problem?
>
>
>
> My pedal fades very very slowly. So I change the
> master cylinder and
> I've
> bled the system from the furthest brake forward no
> change. I spoke
> with a
> local car mechanic and he said that the cups in the
> cylinder have
> reverses
> themselves because I did not bench bleed the new
> master cylinder. He
> couldn't explain why there was no change from the
> original master
> cylinder.
> I checked for leaks: none.
>
>
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