Re: [T3] These damn brakes!

[Scott McCarthy <yellowsquare@sockmonkeys.net>]

hmm.....im wondering now if all that was done to "fix" my brakes was just to bend the pedal stop brakcet back enough to that it actually held up a "high" pedal, its to dark for me to check now but an investigation will insue tommorw.

--- "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
> wrote:
>On 21 Dec 2000, at 14:08, Scott McCarthy wrote:
>
>> apparently the pedel
>> assembly was to far back because the floor and rusted out right there
>> so it was moving back, well its happending again its heading down to
>> the floor, tons of brake fluid in the resivoir any suggestions as to
>> what maybe it could be this time?
>
>What did they do to fix the problem the first time? If they just bent 
>something or adjusted something, then as soon as you used the brakes 
>again then it would either just bend again or bend some more. To fix 
>this, you would have to actually add strength back to something which 
>had lost it.
>
>OTOH, the pedal is attached to the side of the tunnel, and I have 
>never seen it get so weakened that it would bend. The floor is 
>another matter, but it does not support the pedals.
>
>So what actually rusted out on your car?
>
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