From: ygmir (ygmir@onemain.com)
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 20:14:20 PST
Maybe he could be treated for this affliction with heavy doses of German
marching music?.........
Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 Brake help needed
> You cannot be a Frenchman. We will not allow it.
>
> apb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GotaM35" <gotam35@joetrapp.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M35 Brake help needed
>
>
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | 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
> | 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.
> |
> | My guess is a bad master cylinder. I am assuming the air booster will
> | 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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