Now you mention it James, I'm sure the brakes have always been a bit of a problem on this car, Dave H will remember. Tony, you could phone Dave. All the Best Chris P -----Original Message----- From: jamesrguk [mailto:James_rg@xxxx] Sent: 05 August 2002 20:45 To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [doc] brakes Tony, I had a fairly long chat with the chap who was selling your car before you brought it as I too was fairly interested in buying it (bit of a pipe dream for financial reasons at the time). Anyway he told me that the break master cylinder was still mounted on the original left-hand side as in a LHD DeLorean and was linked to the brake pedal by a horizontal bar. I should imaging that this bar must be approximately 2-2.5 foot long to join the master cylinder to the brake pedal. I questioned him about this as I thought that with a bar that long you are bound to get some twisting making the breaks a bit squidgy. This may well be the problem, I have been mulling it over in my walnut sized brain and was wondering if it might be worth changing the horizontal bar from a circular rod (which I think it currently is) to a square bar or something made from a stronger material which is less likely to twist. If anything this information my cause others to come up with some ideas. Is it a round steel bar? I can't remember. hope this helps James RG ................................................................. > My brakes don't seem very efficient and have been getting slowly worse. I > need to push the pedal very hard to get them to work. The calipers and pads > are all ok. I suspect the servo. Are the pipes prone to collapse? or are > there other common problems which could give these symptoms. > > Tony Lawther > Southampton DOC UK Website: www.delorean.co.uk Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are assumed public and may be printed in the club magazine ** Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/