I have experienced the same thing, without loss of brake fluid. It was a
bad master cylinder, in which the fluid simply leaked around the piston but
didn't leak outside the cylinder. Replace/rebuild the master cyllinder.
Jon Elerath
jelerath@us.ibm.com
Max Power <monadnoc@crystal-mtn.com> on 11/03/99 10:33:56 PM
Please respond to Max Power <monadnoc@crystal-mtn.com>
To: Ole Trucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
cc:
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] brake problem
>
> Recently, I've been noticing a somewhat disturbing behavior of my brake
> pedal. When I'm holding down the brake, at a stop light or whatnot, the
> pedal slowly lowers to the floor under my foot. This is not good. Also
> not good is that over the past few days, it's been doing that more often,
> and also while braking during normal driving.
>
If you're losing fluid in the master cylinder, even slowly, it must be
going
somewhere. I had the same slow pedal to the floor and found a tiny pinhole
leak
right in the middle of the brake line running to the rear. It would take a
while to drain the master cylinder, but the time to find that out is not
while
mixing it up in freeway traffic or (worse) driving down Grapevine Hill.
Wally (who has had a few more hairs turn gray due to "exciting brakes")
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