Date:         Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:20:46 -0400
Reply-To:     T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Air in the brake lines?
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I had my brakes services a little while ago. One of the charges was for
bleeding the system. I thought that I had been feeling some mushy brake
pedal feeling when initially starting the vanagon. I dismissed it as getting
used to the new brakes/pedal/bleeding feel.

The last few days i have noticed this pedal feel to be worse. Like maybe the
system was not bleed appropriately. The feeling goes away after a while of
driving. I want to make sure that this is not a booster type thing going on
it was not happening before the service.

My hunch is air in the lines that gets compressed as I used the brakes more
and more, but that fade/mushy feeling gets worst on initial operation
because of the previous compression of gas and liquid.

Please, could the collective advise?

Thanks,
Tony

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