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Another question everyone:
I've felt for a little while that my brakes were getting a bit soft, so
I tried some emergency stops last night and discovered that I was
running out of servo before I locked up the wheels, in other words I was
hitting the "hard" feeling you get when you are doing all the work on
the brake pedal yourself. We still stopped pretty rapidly, and we had a
smallish unbraked trailer on the back at the time, so it's not dangerous
(yet), but clearly I have a potential problem since I would expect to be
able to lock up the wheels on a dry road and force the ABS to cut in.
to a vacuum reservoir reserved for the brakes, with also a minor pipe to
run the a/c and p/s "idle up" actuators. The latter two don't seem to
be doing much, which suggests to me either that the pump is getting
tired or that I have a leak somewhere. I also remember a previous
correspondence a while back about the non-return valve at the top of the
vacuum reservoir failing, but the brake servo seems to hold its vacuum
when left for several days so I don't think it's that.
Does anyone have any advice to offer?
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT
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I've felt for a little while that my brakes were getting a bit soft, so
I tried some emergency stops last night and discovered that I was
running out of servo before I locked up the wheels, in other words I was
hitting the "hard" feeling you get when you are doing all the work on
the brake pedal yourself. We still stopped pretty rapidly, and we had a
smallish unbraked trailer on the back at the time, so it's not dangerous
(yet), but clearly I have a potential problem since I would expect to be
able to lock up the wheels on a dry road and force the ABS to cut in.
to a vacuum reservoir reserved for the brakes, with also a minor pipe to
run the a/c and p/s "idle up" actuators. The latter two don't seem to
be doing much, which suggests to me either that the pump is getting
tired or that I have a leak somewhere. I also remember a previous
correspondence a while back about the non-return valve at the top of the
vacuum reservoir failing, but the brake servo seems to hold its vacuum
when left for several days so I don't think it's that.
Does anyone have any advice to offer?
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT
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