Brake questions (kinda long)
Huw Powell
audi at mediaone.net
Sat Jun 16 15:24:01 EDT 2001
> transparent brake fluid instead of that old and greasy fluid! The problem is
> that even after bleeding thoroughly the brake MC, proportioning valve and
> each caliper, my brakes are a bit weak at first (the car stops and the pedal
> doesn't go to the floor), and after shortly pumping once on the pedal, they
> are great, a lot stiffer when pressing the pedal than before pumping...I've
> checked that no more air comes from each bleeding screw before closing it,
> so this shouldn't be the issue... What can this be? Bad MC?
If its not a bubble in the line somewhere, that is most likely. We bled
Brendan's (4kq) brakes about eleventeen times, with a slowly worsening
soft pedal our only reward... until he picked up a new master cylinder
and prop. valve. Now they are rock hard.
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Huw Powell
http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/
http://www.humanthoughts.org/
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