Date:         Tue, 27 May 2003 08:39:38 -0700
Reply-To:     gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Brake problem
Comments: cc: jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET
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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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