[FC] two items

[Diane and Bob Galli]

Bob taught me to ride the brake pedal when driving through as Jim said, more
than an inch of standing water, have never had the brakes fail from water
logged brake linings, as a result,

That was back in the days of a clutch pedal too.

sorry I am entering this a day late, but I didn't connect up the laptop last
night as where we were in Oklahoma, there was no cell phone signal, and that
is my modem.

See you all in Lexington.

Diane

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Davis" <jld@wk.net>
To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] two items


> Sounds like water saturated brake linings.  After driving through more
than
> an inch of standing water, drag the brakes lightly to dry the linings
> out.  Usually takes about 1200 feet with moderate brake pressure.  I like
> to do it at about 20 mph in second gear because sometimes one brake dries
> before the other making the FC a mite twitchy.  Of course you could change
> to Porterfield carbon based semi-metallic shoes and not worry about water.
> Backfire is because fuel-air mixture is being ignited in the
> muffler.  Usually the muffler is somewhat carboned-up giving the ignition
> source and the idle is high giving an excessive amount of air-fuel in the
> exhaust system.  Carbon in the muffler is from many short trips with the
> chokes on in the winter.
> Jim Davis
>
>
>
> At 10:16 PM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
> >Hey group-
> >
> >Two things:
> >
> >Driving my Rampside today in some very wet rain (is there any other
kind??),
> >I had a weird thing happen with my brakes.  Coming to a pace where I
needed
> >to turn, I pushed the brakes soft then harder.  I felt like I was
> >hydroplaning when I pushed them harder and felt like the steering was on
its
> >own.  I don't think this is the case.  This is a '61 Rampside with
manually
> >adjusted brakes.  Is there any reason why this might have happened??
> >
> >Also, what causes engine backfire?  The Rampside backfired twice today
> >sounding like a bomb going off each time.  This happened right after I
shut
> >off the engine.
> >
> >Thanks!  Ben
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