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1. more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Paradise Music" <paradise.71@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:23:51 GMT; Ok then, gang, it looks like I have a bad brake booster, and probably a leaky m/c. That looks like about $500 if I replace them. I can rebuild the m/c easily enough; what about the booster? Rebuildab; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00612.html (7,842 bytes)
2. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:07:50 -0400; Booster rebuild.... http://www.partcoautomotive.com/ Don Malling; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00615.html (8,197 bytes)
3. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "R. Ashford Little II" <70TR6@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:08:46 -0400; Have your booster rebuilt at: http://www.partcoautomotive.com/ Excellent work, and a whole lot cheaper. R. Ashford Little II '70 TR6 CC54994; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00616.html (7,762 bytes)
4. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Paradise Music" <paradise.71@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:04:38 GMT; Thanks everybody. I guess I'll have to give my car up for a few more days...'tis probably better than losing my brakes. Bryan P.S. Is there an oponion about dot 5?; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00625.html (7,735 bytes)
5. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Paradise Music" <paradise.71@juno.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:21:09 GMT; Thanks everybody. I guess I'll have to give my car up for a few more days...'tis probably better than losing my brakes. Bryan P.S. Is there an oponion about dot 5?; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00627.html (7,828 bytes)
6. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:38:12 -0700; The parts are almost impossible to find retail, and it takes some special tools & techniques to rebuild it. Makes more sense, IMO, to have it commercially rebuilt. Ashford already recommended PartCo; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00632.html (10,900 bytes)
7. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: Mitch Seff <ms6453@optonline.net>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:25:21 -0400; Hey Bryan, I recently saw that Apple Hydraulics rebuilds boosters. I've used some of their other rebuilt products and was very pleased. http://www.applehydraulics.com/brakes.htm <http://www.applehydr; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00646.html (8,526 bytes)
8. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: BearTranserv@aol.com; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:41:45 EDT; It lasts essentially forever (unlike glycol which should be changed every few years), makes the other brake components last longer, doesn't corrode the system from the inside out Randall, this seems; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00662.html (8,910 bytes)
9. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:08:20 -0700; Well, the first question is : Has anyone, ever, seen this happen ? The answer is NO ! Second, a simple experiment ... take a clean baby food jar (or other small, clear glass container) and add a sma; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00665.html (9,860 bytes)
10. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Jim Bauder" <jimbpps@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:27:23 -0700; Just a comment, my local NAPA store sells DOT5 by the quart for reasonable prices from stock. Of course, NFI Jim The parts are almost impossible to find retail, and it takes some special tools & tech; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00667.html (11,827 bytes)
11. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:01:07 -0400; I was always under the impression that water alone would not rust metal. Unless there is a lot of free oxygen around no significant rust should appear. A bead of water surrounded by silicone should n; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00672.html (10,716 bytes)
12. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:06:26 -0700; I've asked some chemists about that, still don't know the right answer. But, water found in the environment almost always has oxygen dissolved in it, not to mention carbonic acid. If you take tap wa; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00680.html (9,120 bytes)
13. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: BearTranserv@aol.com; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:06:42 EDT; Well, the first question is : Has anyone, ever, seen this happen ? The answer is NO ! Well no, but then I've had a lot of old cars and never seen a brake line rust out with ANY kind of fluid. I use C; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00685.html (9,542 bytes)
14. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:50:09 -0700; I don't know about rusting in or out but I have found myself brakeless three times because of a rust through pin hole. All that mattered to me at the time was the fact that I was going down hill wit; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00686.html (8,741 bytes)
15. RE: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:35:47 -0700; I have. Wasn't a whole lot of fun either, and it cost me a TR3A. Discovered the problem going down a very steep hill into an underground parking garage with no exit. Didn't have a working handbrake; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00687.html (9,065 bytes)
16. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: Dave1massey@cs.com; Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:37:19 EDT; The brake lines on the rear axle of my TR3 rusted out. But from the outside. I don't think any kind of fluid will prevent this. Except, perhaps, the ever present engine, transmission and differential; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00688.html (8,668 bytes)
17. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Michael Hutchinson" <mahutchinson@cox.net>; Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:27:25 -0700; It always gets pretty hairy when you have a hole rust through your brake line. Especially when you are in a loaded International grain truck. Have to develop creative driving techniques. As always, l; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00689.html (8,766 bytes)
18. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:43:00 -0400; It's my understanding that water absorbed in DOT 3/4 not a problem. The problem is caused by the water that is not absorbed. That is, when the DOT 3/4 absorbs enough moisture to become saturated, the; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00690.html (9,212 bytes)
19. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: "Heglund, Davis (MN17)" <davis.heglund@honeywell.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:29:55 -0700; Don Malling wrote: The absorption thing also beings up a point that has always troubled me. Why are the DOT 3/4 manufacturers so hyper about not using fluid from a once opened can. The MC is vented t; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00710.html (9,173 bytes)
20. Re: more TR6 brake issues (score: 1): Author: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:29:35 -0400; Hi Dave, I don't pay any attention to my modern cars, but it sure looks to me as if the brake and clutch MC on my TR6 are vented as is the brake MC on my MGB. It's not so clear about the MGB clutch M; /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00719.html (10,152 bytes)

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