Hello All
What the heck is a hydrovac unit?
Ken Nachman
In a message dated 12/1/97 9:28:37 AM, you wrote:
>Here is another article I just had mailed to the VTR
>site on the related topic of TR3 brake problems --
>this sounds like it may be the same problem as Ken
>Nachman's TR3.
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>Kenneth B. Streeter | EMAIL: streeter@sanders.com
>Sanders, PTP2-A001 |
>PO Box 868 | Voice: (603) 885-9604
>Nashua, NH 03061 | Fax: (603) 885-0631
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>Hello
>
>I just found out about your article...search it in the net.
>
>
>Anyway, my problem is that...
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>My wheels or brake pads get stuck to the drums after say an hour drive.
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>Then the vehicle will not move.
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>What I do is pop the hood and bleed the master cylinder and thus I have
>another hour drive...
>
>The mechanic changed the repair kit of the MC and again...after 2 hours
>of driving...wheels got stuck...
>
>He said that the problem is not within the wheels(wheel brake
>cylinders/pistons). Now he changed the whole MC ....and when he
>installed it....and bled from the three wheels including the MC...the
>brakes were gone...the brake pads literally don't engage with the drums...
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>Why is this so....
>
>Actually---we didn't do the procedure you did, as stated in ur article.
>We bled the whole system after installing the MC.
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>Now he's saying that maybe it's the hydrovac unit which is at fault...
>
>Please enlighten...
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Albert S.O. Luyon
>University of the PHilippines
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