Dudes (and dudettes), after a couple YEARS of wrangling paperwork on my wrecker, it is finally "legit" and able to be cruised. I am going through the truck now to get it all squared away but have hit a roadblock on the brakes. Mainly in the fact that the truck currently has none and I cannot figure it for the life of me.
The brakes kind of degenerated over time where they went from OK to a little squishy to needing to pump the pedal to build some pressure and now to having zero pedal despite the fact that there is fluid in the lines and the master is full. I replaced the master cylinder last year while screwing around with it as I had discovered that the old one was filling the brake booster with fluid. I figured that the seals were junk and that would be that. New master is on and still no pedal. I can bleed the suckers until the cows some home and get nowhere. It is not leaking fluid onto the ground, etc.
I always thought that the sign of a bad booster was a hard pedal, but maybe I am wrong. Any ideas are appreciated for sure!
BTW, this truck has a very "normal" braking system with a single pot master, typical diaphragm booster, and wheel cylinders at the corners.
Obviously something was gradually going away (when I had to start pumping the brakes a while back) and I should have fixed it then, but the hassle of trying to get the paperwork square pretty much took the fun out of cruising it.
Whaddya think?
The brakes kind of degenerated over time where they went from OK to a little squishy to needing to pump the pedal to build some pressure and now to having zero pedal despite the fact that there is fluid in the lines and the master is full. I replaced the master cylinder last year while screwing around with it as I had discovered that the old one was filling the brake booster with fluid. I figured that the seals were junk and that would be that. New master is on and still no pedal. I can bleed the suckers until the cows some home and get nowhere. It is not leaking fluid onto the ground, etc.
I always thought that the sign of a bad booster was a hard pedal, but maybe I am wrong. Any ideas are appreciated for sure!
BTW, this truck has a very "normal" braking system with a single pot master, typical diaphragm booster, and wheel cylinders at the corners.
Obviously something was gradually going away (when I had to start pumping the brakes a while back) and I should have fixed it then, but the hassle of trying to get the paperwork square pretty much took the fun out of cruising it.
Whaddya think?
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