<VV> No brakes

[BBRT]

The hard, harder test finds a rusted spot usually, in my case it was 
underneath the car, on an old autocrosser I bought, hauled home, and had to 
try the car... brakes failed as I came into driveway, but stopped short of 
getting the opportunity to buy a new garage door...

Chuck S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> No brakes


> That is extremely good advice. When I was 21 and knew even less than I 
> know
> now, I had brake failure in my front brakes, luckily at low speed coming 
> out
> of my driveway. Being somewhat hard up at the time, I replaced just the
> front wheel cylinders.
>
> Two weeks later the rear ones failed going down a 1 in 4 (I guess you say
> 25% or something - very steep anyway - you go down 1 foot for every 4
> travelled forwards). As it was the rear brakes and the failure was caused 
> by
> a wheel cylinder pouring fluid all over the shoes (as well as losing
> pressure in the whole system), the emergency brake didn't work either.
>
> Luckily I was able to slam it into first gear, because there was a hairpin
> at the bottom. I made it round the hairpin (on 2 wheels), and managed to
> roll to a stop without hitting anything (I'd have been dead if I had 
> done -
> non-collapsible steering column and no seat belts).
>
> Since then, I have always fixed brakes in fours...
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <flynfred at aol.com>
> To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:45 PM
> Subject: <VV> No brakes
>
>
>>? Take note that if one wheel cylinder is leaking, all of the other wheel
>>cylinders are most likely just as old. They will be on the verge of 
>>leaking
>>or stuck so as they will not apply the brake shoes. It would be 
>>recommended
>>to redo all four wheels.
>>
>> Fred Marsh
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