Technical Tips > Brakes, Suspensions, Steering, Wheels & Tyres
Problem Solved
77CVT:
Yep - I'll be there. I will definitely be looking for you guys on Sunday as you will no doubt have the chicky babes to take around as well! :22
Brutus:
Typically I have to work over the whole Bathurst weekend this year.....hell, I even have to work Xmas day this year too!
Oh well maybe next time.:b2
Bob
MR 69ER:
Wow I had to pull this one out of the archives. At long last it looks like my braking problem has been solved. What was it I know is the question on everyones tongoue. Well I can't narrow it down exactly as I did 2 things at the same time and now the problem is gone. Firstly i renewed the rear wheel bearings and had the discs machined again but the problem was still there. So although the calipers where re-cores I questioned the quality of the job done on them so I put new seal kits through both of the rears and re-assembled & put them back on the car. Whilst trying to bleed the system I could not get the outer nipple on the left rear to seal off. Although it was not leaking fluid I could hear air in the bleed hose when the pedal was released. After examining the bleed nipple I saw that the air hole at the bottom of it was squashed & obviously not sealing up properly. I got another bleed nipple, it sealed, got a good peddle & have done about 1000k's & the peddle is the best it has ever been.
Like I said I don't know what did it either the seals or the nipple but I have bled the brakes before myself & i'm sure I would not have missed the dud nipple. Anyway it is nice to put this to bed & hope that all my explorations & the end result will help someone else.
Again thanks for all your input.
Cheers
Steve:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20
77CVT:
Happy days!
Great to hear things are better. Sounds like you had as many troubles as me and my '77! The rear hub is a cause for excess runout - George in our club had his rear hub machined and it fixed his problem. I had trouble with a bleeder nipple as well.
I had 10 thou runout on the rear (4 thou in front) before the Canberra convention and by the time I arrived I had hardly any brakes! It doesn't take much.
I'd say both things contributed to your problem.
MR 69ER:
Yeah it was a bit of a tricky one but in the end got the bugger. My last option if all this didn't work was the proportioning valve as there was no other may for air to be getting in, but i didn't have to go there. Again thanks for all your advice.
Chris are you comming down for Fox? it would be great to see you on our turf, Gary mentioned something about you might be so anyway I will leave it up to you. Also don't forget to mark you spot on the hill at Bathurst this year. I want to see a massive sign that says IF YOU WANT TO REV IT CHEV IT and I promise you i will bag them up just for you, but only if i see that sign. So get you wife & kids working on it out in the garage NOW.
The 5 girls, 2 men, 3 dogs, 1 horse & 4 cats that they put in the car might not all still be with me at the end of the lap but heck, isn't that what they call SCRUTINERING.
Cheers
:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20:20
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version