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Date:         Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:05:20 -0500
Reply-To:     Dan Resler <resler@LIBERTY.MAS.VCU.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.sdsc.edu>
From:         Dan Resler <resler@LIBERTY.MAS.VCU.EDU>
Subject:      problems w/ braking hard?
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I have an '87 Westy and am wondering how it should `feel' when I brake hard at high speed, let's say 55 mph or higher. Now with any car that I've owned if I brake hard at high speeds I feel a smooth, firm deceleration, as if the brakes are grabbing properly. But with the Vanagon it's different - if I brake hard I get a rather severe vibration (the whole bloody van rattles) and the brakes feels like they grab then slip, grab then slip, grab then slip ... I get a rapid whop whop whop whop noise and feeling.

I took the van in to my local VW mechanic and he replaced the master cylinders in the rear. Now that *improved* the problem greatly but I find I still get alot of shaking and vibration when I brake hard at high speed. Or at least it's nothing like the smooth deceleration I've experienced with or other (non-VW) vans.

Is this normal?

dan -- Dan Resler

Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA 23284-2014 USA email: resler@liberty.mas.vcu.edu


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