You had better check all the rest of the brake hydralic system rubber parts.
Whatever caused the problem with the caliper seals is or was no doubt in the
rest of the system also, as it is all interconncted.
I would think that a more likely source of the problem with the brake
pedal getting hard and high as the brakes got hotter would be swollen Master
cylinder seals that are obstructing the "compensating port" in the Master
cylinder and not allowing the pressure and fluid to bleed back into the
Master cylinder resevoir when the brakes are released.
Regards, Greg Solow
----- Original Message -----
From: <LSelz@aol.com>
To: <DGreimel@aol.com>; <gdm@po.cwru.edu>; <morgans@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: brakes
>
> I had the slow seizing of brakes happen to me the other day, immobilizing
the
> car. The brake pedal got higher and tighter, and the hotter the brakes
got
> the worse it got. The problem turned out to be swollen seals in the front
> calipers. Bleeding the pressure off relieved the pressure till I touched
the
> brake pedal again, then the brakes locked anew. It came home on the back
of
> a roll-body truck, and both calipers replaced. Don't know what caused it;
> probably combination of brake fluid incompatibilites and corrosion from
long
> disuse.
>
> Lannis
>
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