I got a question for you all. This weekend, while I was driving my Alpine, I
was having a recurring brake problem. I could drive for about 10 minutes or
so but then my brakes would start getting progressively tighter until they
eventually would get so tight that the car would no longer move. It appears
that all 4 brakes are locked as I jacked the car up and could not move any
of them by hand. I initially thought that I had a servo problem. I was
running the brakes through the servo but was not running a vacuum line into
the servo. I thought that this would just set up a pass through situation
and I would have unassisted brakes. After my brakes locked up for about the
fourth time, I bit the bullet and bent the brake line around so that it went
directly into the 3 way splitter unit instead of using the servo. This did
not change the situation. So to get home I had to stop every few miles and
loosen the brake line going into the splitter so that the excess pressure
could vent. The brake would then get all mushy and would progressively
tighten up again. It is acting like there is some sort of one way valve in
the system that is only pushing the fluid out and not letting it return to
the reservoir.
Any ideas?
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