[DMCForum] Re: Braking questions

["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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