Date:         Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:57:03 -0500
Reply-To:     Sharon & Miguel Calvin <mcalvin@ICAN.NET>
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From:         Sharon & Miguel Calvin <mcalvin@ICAN.NET>
Subject:      Help! Brake trouble - 83.5 liquid-cooled Westy
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Volks,

My brakes are behaving strangely.  When I press the pedal it goes down at
least halfway before anything happens, and then the brakes seem weak.  But,
if I pump the pedal once, it starts braking after about an inch of travel
on the second depression, and the braking action is much better.

I have bled the brakes at all four wheels with a combination of a vacuum
bleeder and pedal depressions.  I ran a total of 1.5 litres of DOT4 fluid
though the system.
So I beleive that air in the lines is now unlikely.  What else could it be?

TIA

Miguel Calvin                              ==+=========
mcalvin@ican.net                          /[ ][  ][  ]}|
Guelph, Ontario, Canada                  |  _       _  |
"Frieden" is our 83.5 VW Campmobile      =='O`-----'O`-= ~~
with 1.9l wasserleaker and manual trans.