[DMCForum] Re: Re Braking questions

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also check hoses connecting calipers to brake lines. Could be old &
spongy (fluid expanding hoses rather than pressing pistons).

Brake fluid sucks up moisture. Water has terrible hydraulic
properties.  Also rusts system from inside out. That's why people so
fastidious about changing every couple of years.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> I have not. It's the original 20+ year old fluid. (I know, I should 
> be smacked for this)
> 
> Sounds like a damn fine idea.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Scott Mueller" 
> <scott.a.mueller@xxxx> wrote:
> > You may have water in the brake lines.  Have you bleed the brakes 
> yet?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cruznmd [mailto:racuti1@xxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 7:47 AM
> > To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [DMCForum] Braking questions
> > 
> > 
> > Onto my other problem of the day:
> > 
> > After several hard-braking episodes in D.C. this morning, my brake 
> > warning light came on. While I was glad to see that the warning 
> > circuit works after all, I was distressed to feel the pedal go 
> almost 
> > to the floor.
> > 
> > After letting the car sit for a couple of hours, I went back to the 
> > parking garage to take a closer look. I'm not losing any fluid. The 
> > firewall is dry, the wheels are dry, the master cylinder was dry. 
> The 
> > fluid is a -little- low, consistent with a level that says my pads 
> > are almost gone and a larger portion of the fluid is in the lines 
> and 
> > not the resevoir, causing the light. This time, I could -not- get 
> the 
> > light to come on, and the brakes were back to "normal".
> > 
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > 1. What is "fading" exactly, in referrence to braking?
> > 2. What causes it?
> > 
> > Is that what I experienced? 
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > Rich
> > 
> > 
> > 
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