Brakes saga Part 365

[Joshua Van Tol]

>Typically British weather this morning - cold and raining so I froze my
>b*llocks for several hours while fitting a new master cylinder, new flex
>lines and bled the system (took ages to bleed it, couldn't get any real flow
>from the thing). Stopped for some lunch and walked out into bright
>sunshine - temperature must have been up by 10 degrees.
>
>However, the new parts haven't made a great difference to the brakes. OK,
>the pedal doesn't hit the floor, but it didn't do that everytime with the
>old MC. Still got the odd pedal - just as the car is coming to a stop it
>drops further (feels like an inch but is probably only 1/4). I'm going to
>run another litre of fluid through the system tomorrow - see if that sorts
>it.

Hm, have you checked for a bad wheel bearing? Sounds weird, but a 
REALLY toasted wheel bearing can cause the spindle to rock a bit, and 
push the piston back. Causes a strange feeling in the pedal once you 
get it pumped up too.
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Joshua Van Tol -- josh at spiny.com