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Additional thoughts, see my other mesage first. 200 1985

posted by  DeWayne on  Fri Mar 15 00:14 CST 2002
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I am the original owner of the car. I had replaced the original MC about six years ago because it was bypassing internally. All I did then was bolt in the reman unit and the brakes worked fine with no adjustments. Since this is the third master cylinder that has been installed and it's not a rebuilt unit, I doubt the problem is the MC. The brake lines have been bled to death by me and the repair shop, so there should be no air left in the system unless one of the components is letting air back in, but then I would expect to see a leak.

I don't think the Haynes or Bently manuals give specific specifications on adjustment of the brake booster, but I'll look again to be sure. I did see the adjustment nut on the booster the last time I took off the MC, so I'll try to adjust it tonight and see what happens. I'm also going to call the local junk yards to look for a used booster just in case.

Before I adjust the booster, I'm going the clamp off the front brake lines to see if the hard pedal returns. If it does, then the problem could be caused by the reman calipers. If I still don't have a hard pedal, then the calipers are most likely not the culprit.

Thanks again for all the input and advise.... I may be poor when the brakes finally get fixed, but they will get fixed one way or another!!

DeWayne






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