On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Sheilah Rogers <sheilah@sheilah.org> wrote:

> So I was driving in ~80F weather, up and down a not so steep road but some curves, about 30 minutes of said road was unpaved, ...... I drove about 45minutes total here.
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> Then I got on the highway for another 45 minutes-ish. When I went to slow down a bit, it was like my brake peddle wasn't responding with its normal sort of push-back and instead, the brake pedal just dropped with no brake functionality about 80% to the floor before it engaged. Once engaged, I could slow the van down but of course I then had the pedal to the medal just to slow down a bit.
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> Being on a quiet highway I kept going, figured I'd pull over in a bigger town and at least I can stop the van. But after 30minutes, the brake resumed normal so I just continued driving to my mechanic's.
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>

Were you driving slower on the unpaved roads? If so, maybe you didn't
need to push as hard as if slowing down from highway speeds?

Regardless, that sinking feeling usually means the MC is failing or failed.

Any receipts showing if MC was replaced? A time line of how old part
is may help.

Neil.
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