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A little more than I wanted

Popped in for a quick sherbet on the way back from the Muppet Factory and post drinkypoo found the brakes felt a little soft. So in a spirit of investigation gave the pedal several pumps which resulted in a solid pedal a little way down. Drove home a little carefully and up the drive slid down-under for a squint. Now last week I bled everything so I checked the rear nipples to make sure all was tight and dry a big clue should have been a puddle of DOT 4 appearing at the n/s front an otherwise mint brake line had sprung a leak above the union no doubt a closer inpection will reveal corrosion but I missed it completely when I was bleeding the system - thank god for dual circuit brakes!! Derek

200TDi Disco
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Derek
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On or around Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:11:07 GMT, "Derek" enlightened us thusly:

yeah, dual circuit brakes are a pretty nifty invention.

's amazing how hard the buggers are to stop with only half the brakes working, though, or less in some cases - ISTR disco 1 has one circuit doing half the front pistons and the other circuit doing the other half of the front and the rear.

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Austin Shackles

Maybe I'm a little discohappy still Austin but the braking effort didn't seem too bad ( then again I'm old enough to have driven all sorts of crap with unservo'd drums - no offence series owners ) I took the day off and replaced the bad line with kuniferand the road test was good until the other pipe to the n/s caliper blew a pin hole I think I may have a guardian angel then! I'm off to bag a load of unions and the o/s is getting replaced regardless of whether they look ok or not well before we nip over to Wales to pickup a cruiser. Derek

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Derek

On or around Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:21:37 GMT, "Derek" enlightened us thusly:

There's not a lot wrong with series rovers on nonservo drum brakes. The main problem with drum brakes is less cooling.

When you fit discs, though, the brake pedal pressure is much higher unless you have a servo.

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Austin Shackles

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