Audi, heal thyself

[Richard J. Andrews]

could still be an iffy master cylinder...
i would probably swap it out anyways and flush the system.

-rich
'86 4kq
At 03:09 PM 5/10/02, you wrote:


>Now tell me my car doesn't love me . . .
>
>Coupla days ago, I would have sworn the master cylinder had just died on my
>86 5KS. Hal (the autocheck) started beeping merrily away, the brake pedal
>was squishy and traveled further than it should, and would even bottom with
>steady pressure - classic partial brake master cylinder failure syndrome.
>Checked all belts and fluids, nothing missing or leaking more than usual,
>yup, definitely the master cylinder. Phooey.
>
>Took a ride over the the local auto parts store, advised them that the
>lifetime guaranteed master cylinder I had bought from them back in 1996 had
>died, here's my receipt, gimme another one, please, and they did. Plan was
>to put it in tomorrow, and quite frankly, I was not looking forward to it,
>and then having to bleed the brakes by myself.
>
>This morning, everything was fine! Hal was happy and quiet, the brake pedal
>was properly firm, no squish (and not the "dead-bomb" clunk either), the
>car evidently healed itself!
>
>Only thing I can think of was a speck of crud under the check valve in the
>bomb or somewhere in the master cylinder, and it finally moved . . . the
>brakes are as good as they have EVER been.
>
>Now I'm not complaining, but does anyone have any suggestions as to what's
>going on here?
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Mike Arman