<VV> No brakes

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

That is extremely good advice. When I was 21 and knew even less than I know 
now, I had brake failure in my front brakes, luckily at low speed coming out 
of my driveway. Being somewhat hard up at the time, I replaced just the 
front wheel cylinders.

Two weeks later the rear ones failed going down a 1 in 4 (I guess you say 
25% or something - very steep anyway - you go down 1 foot for every 4 
travelled forwards). As it was the rear brakes and the failure was caused by 
a wheel cylinder pouring fluid all over the shoes (as well as losing 
pressure in the whole system), the emergency brake didn't work either.

Luckily I was able to slam it into first gear, because there was a hairpin 
at the bottom. I made it round the hairpin (on 2 wheels), and managed to 
roll to a stop without hitting anything (I'd have been dead if I had done - 
non-collapsible steering column and no seat belts).

Since then, I have always fixed brakes in fours...

Cheers

Alan





----- Original Message ----- 
From: <flynfred at aol.com>
To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:45 PM
Subject: <VV> No brakes


>? Take note that if one wheel cylinder is leaking, all of the other wheel 
>cylinders are most likely just as old. They will be on the verge of leaking 
>or stuck so as they will not apply the brake shoes. It would be recommended 
>to redo all four wheels.
>
> Fred Marsh
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