From: GotaM35 (gotam35@joetrapp.com)
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 18:37:37 PST
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From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
> Can you roll the truck, in neutral, using something else to push or tow
> it?
> Sounds like the brakes are locked up, maybe due to a crimped line, or a
> defective MC?
When I discovered the "peddle to the metal" a few weeks ago I was moving it
My guess is a bad master cylinder. I am assuming the air booster will
around in the yard just to charge the batteries and remove the cargo cover
in the drive way instead of under the trees. No real braking was needed. I
immediately checked the fluid and it was full. That ruled out, I think,
that I had lost any fluid or was not building pressure because of a leak. I
have owned many crop pay vehicles in my time and leaky wheel cylinders and
shot master cylinders have yielded these results. I was very surprised
yesterday when I performed the "would not move with the brakes to the floor"
test. No resistance on the peddle at all. It will move quite well under
it's own power with the peddle up.
provide some braking under these circumstances. I assume this because the
master cylinder provides brake fluid to the booster which then magically
uses air to increase the hydraulic pressure. I have not studied it well
enough to know what I am talking about. Yet I still talk (maybe I could be
a French politician).
Joe Trapp
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