[V8] New Silver '90

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 21:17:38 PDT 2009


I'm with Cobram. Bad Master Cylinder. Also check all of the caliper sliders (especially the rears). I suspect a few may be stuck/frozen. 

Ingo Rautenberg

-----Original Message-----
From: cobram at juno.com
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:12:01 
To: <cheshirecatsbox at gmail.com>
Cc: <V8 at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [V8] New Silver '90

"Seamus O'Carey" <cheshirecatsbox at gmail.com> writes:

> If I
> stab hard at the brakes, they'll engage for a second near the top of 
> the
> pedal, but then it immediately goes soft and doesn't engage again 
> until it's
> near the floor.  If I press slowly on the pedal it behaves the same, 
> except
> for it doesn't have the initial grab at the top of the pedal.  Does 
> that
> sound like the notorious failing bomb trouble?
> 
> Also, I can't find the recent brake bomb discussion in the archives. 
>  Can
> someone point me in the right direction or remember what the 
> discussion
> subject was?  ><

Sounds more like a bad master cylinder.  

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
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big enough to take from you everything you have.
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