Re: [T3] Gimme a brake!

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

I had brake failure due to dragging brakes after highway speeds, and
it's certainly a possibility.   I'm surprised pumping the brakes
made it OK again; it took mine quite a while to cool down again
before it worked properly.  If Phil had been driving a fair bit
before and after without a problem, it could be a partially
collapsed hose that started holding pressure in and then stopped
doing it.

Watch out touching rotors -  they get hot enough to burn me even
when working normally (maybe I need to do more manual work and less
pen-pushing!).  Compare the wheels first.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 31 December 1998 02:31
Subject: Re: [T3] Gimme a brake!


On 30 Dec 98, at 9:56, Dillard, Phil wrote:
snip
> Meanwhile, can someone kindly point out the culprit for me?  Why
> would the brake action fail suddenly and totally but then operate
> normally thereafter?

It is most likely that you have at least one wheel's brakes that are
dragging, overheating, boiling the fluid, and causing the brake
fluid
to be replaced by very compressible brake fluid vapor.  To find the
culprit, drive around carefully a bit then stop and reach through
the
slots on each wheel and touch each drum/rotor.  The one that burns
your finger is the culprit.
snip
Jim


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