If the back brakes are adjusted too tight or the front calipers are not
backing off the heat buildup will expand the fluid and apply the brakes even
tighter.
With the brakes cold after car has sat jack up the car, apply the brakes
hard, get out and spin the wheels to see which wheel is dragging.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Eckert <keckert(at)terascape.com>
To: Alpine folks <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 7:30 AM
Subject: Brake Trouble
> 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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