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Re: Brake wierdness


On  5 Mar 98 at 11:41, Ross O'Shea wrote:

> Strange things happening with the brakes on my 70 Notch.  The brakes 
> work pretty effectively (I think), but I've recently noticed that if I 
> brieflly remove my foot from the brake pedal and then re-apply it, 
> the braking is more effective - more pedal resistance and less 
> pedal travel before anything happens.  What's the deal here?

I suspect that as your rear brake shoes have worn down your pedal 
travle has just increased slowly until you finally noticed something. 
If this is the case, you should also notice that you need to pull up 
on the hand brake lever farther now, too

Someone need to adjust your rear brakes.  Do NOT simply tighten up 
the parking brake cables.

Jim
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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