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Re: brake pressure
- To: quattro@swiss.ans.net
- Subject: Re: brake pressure
- From: rwcohn@chinet.chinet.com (Robert W. Cohn)
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 22:49:03 -0500 (CDT)
- In-Reply-To: <"Macintosh */PRMD=MOT/ADMD=MOT/C=US/"@MHS> from "Jeff_Skelley-C13386@email.mot.com" at Oct 28, 94 12:29:14 pm
- Reply-To: quattro
- Sender: quattro-owner
>
> I recently replaced my pressure accumulator on my 5000S. What an improvement in
> the power brakes / steering. A strange thing happened the other night though.
> I was sitting on a hill (a rare occurrence in FL) and after holding the brakes
> for 5 seconds a surge went through the pedal and the pedal moved down. This
> repeated about 3 times until the pedal was on the floor and I had no brakes.
> When I let up on the pedal and pressed it again the pressure was there but the
> sequence started again. The brakes did this once before (prior to press acc
> replacement) but I blew it off since the brakes work properly 99% of the time.
> The car does have ABS but I doubt it is involved. Any ideas?
>
Master Cylinder is about to give up the GHOST.
(I couldn't help it!)
Robert.....
rwcohn@chinet.com