<VV> No brakes

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

Yes, I think hard, harder would have warned me about the rear brake problem 
before it happened!

Cheers

Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BBRT" <chsadek at comcast.net>
To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> No brakes


> The hard, harder test finds a rusted spot usually, in my case it was
> underneath the car, on an old autocrosser I bought, hauled home, and had 
> to
> try the car... brakes failed as I came into driveway, but stopped short of
> getting the opportunity to buy a new garage door...
>
> Chuck S
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
> To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> No brakes
>
>
>> 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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