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Brake probs
57kombi - May 22nd, 2005 at 04:42 PM

Fitted all new slave cylinders on the bus last week as I had NOS ones and they had shit themselves and leaked..
Drove it for a few days and everything was great, nice pedal feel ,as I had adjusted the brakes, well on the cruise today I noticed that the pedal got hard and eventually I had to stop as the brakes were stuck on. on all 4 wheels????
I backed them off and everything was O.K. again, I had fitted a new master cylinder last year but I think it might be knackered and not allowing the fluid to return and so locking the brakes on .

Anyone have any other ideas.

Cheers
Dave


toplessbug - May 22nd, 2005 at 06:35 PM

is the pushrod to long, which wont allow the piston to return home to fully uncover the return port .get them stuck on again then remove the p/rod and see what happens if nothing release the pressure fitting in the side of the mc and if all is good again then mc is knackered


jakjones - May 22nd, 2005 at 08:12 PM

ya gotta have free- play @master/push-rod !!


57kombi - May 23rd, 2005 at 01:07 PM

Will try,Thanks all

Cheers
Dave


VolksFolks - May 23rd, 2005 at 01:55 PM

Dave i had exactly the same problem, and yep, now you have new cylinders the rod will now be too tight, i scratched and scratched my head for ages when it happened to me, then i realised DOH!, haha, good luck


57kombi - May 23rd, 2005 at 02:41 PM

I will adjust it tomorrow and let you know.
Been too busy latley to have a look.
Thanks again.

Cheers
Dave