My Econoline Ford was hard but did not stop
vanagon was spongy but stopped just fine
--- David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, gary hradek wrote:
>
> > I just figured
> > it was a feature on the vanagon and the bug for
> that
> > matter.   Never got that good hard feeling like
> the
> > ford.
>
> The brakes in my Vanagon are nice and firm.  They're
> *much* firmer than
> the ones in my Ford Econoline.  Those brakes kinda
> scared me...I could
> push the pedal down to the mechanical stop with just
> my toe.  They'd hold,
> but it felt like the power boost was trying to suck
> the pedal out from
> under my foot.  Really hard to be smooth.
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 Diesel Westfalia
> '94 Honda Civic Si

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