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Re: [oletrucks] brake mystery

To: Edward Miller <edngael@open.org>,
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] brake mystery
From: Floyd Humphries <floydh@multiboard.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 07:39:58 -0400
At 09:29 PM 6/27/99 -0700, Edward Miller wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>Ole Rattler's been having a brake problem for some time: when I drive
>for a long way, like an hour or so, the brake pedal free play seems to
>disappear and the brakes (rear, mainly) start grabbing and not
>releasing.  It's like pressure is building up in the lines.  After the
>truck sits a while the brakes free up and the pedal free play returns.
>This is a stock brake system.

Hi Ed
i had this problem years ago on a old car (new then haha) and it was the 
fluid getting hot.  i reduced the length of the rod that goes from the pedal 
to the master cyl and the problem dissapeared.



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