Hi,

The pedal does not go all the way to the floor, well at I have not sat there
long enough for it to get there after a four minutes I give up  The
emergency brake works fine. The van stops nicely.  No fluid loss

The rear brakes... I fixed them in Mar.  I though I was going though pads on
the front too quickly so I checked the rears and I found that I had put one
the springs on upside down so they were not adjusting, the spring coil was
holding the adjusting nut in place.  In short the drum look very nice and
the shoes hardly have any signs of wear (as of Mar).  I'll try adjusting
them this week end.

Thanks
Jere

-----Original Message-----
From: gary hradek [mailto:hradek@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:40 AM
To: Vanagon Mailing List
Cc: jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET
Subject: Brake problem

Jere,
    "My pedal fades very very slowly"   Does this mean
the pedal goes to the floor?   Does it stop the van?  
Does it feel soft?   Does the emergency brake work
well?    "if your not loosing fluid anywhere"
             I am guessing that you did not take the
drums off to look at the back brakes.   It is a good
idea to change your master cylinder from time to time
but I would look at the rear wheel cyclinder next.  
If you have the cash buy a pair from bus depot and
perhaps some new shoes for daddy since your are in
there anyway.   More than likely your rear brakes are
out of adjustment.   You might be lucky and can get by
just by hand adjusting the shoes without pulling the
drums but sooner or later you will need to pull the
drums and fix the problem.   Ignore the book about
pulling the hubs.   Just pull the drums and leave your
big nuts alone.   gary
Date:    Mon, 26 May 2003 21:36:31 -0700
From:    Jere Hawn <jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Brake problem

Hi All,

Can anyone provide some assistance on this brake
problem?

My pedal fades very very slowly.  So I change the
master cylinder and 
I've
bled the system from the furthest brake forward no
change.  I spoke 
with a
local car mechanic and he said that the cups in the
cylinder have 
reverses
themselves because I did not bench bleed the new
master cylinder.  He
couldn't explain why there was no change from the
original master 
cylinder.
I checked for leaks: none.

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