Intermittent Brakes

I'm following y'all who think its the MC. There is hardly anything else that it could be. Roy posted a kind of test that I can do. I'll take a better look at it tonight and see if there is something fairly obvious.

 

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I wouldn't want to take it onto trails with the chance the brakes are going to the floor unexpectedly and when I really don't want them to. Think of the switch backs on Black Bear Pass.
If need be, skip the last trip and be able to go again next year.


Picure credit to Mrs FinoCJ- Thanks Jen.
Nick

 

Do you mean 11" rear brakes? Just asking

 

Had old trucks in the 60s and 70s with juice brakes and had them fail on occasion,got so I would stand on them before leaving for test.... still have nightmares putting foot on brakes and feeling them slowly going to the floor....

 

I've had a few lines blow, with single masters. No disasters.

But that mostly was back in the time when "emergency" brakes actually were useful in an emergency.

 

Yes the front are disc and 11” drum rears.

 

You guys dont think it's the minor leak he stated he had? If liquid can get out, air can get in, right?

Is taking it to a shop too much of a chance due to the planned wheeling trip?

 

I was on a Barker Meadow/Rubicon clean up. The brakes were working great all day and then, pedal to the floor. I could get them to come back up by pumping. I looked all over the place trying to find a leak. When I got home it took a while but I found the leak at the front brake line going to the MC. The reason it took so long was the leak would only occur when the frame was flexed stretching the line. I changed the brake line fixing the leak and never had another problem. I ended up replacing both lines from the MC to the distribution block with rubber lines instead of hard lines and they lasted as long as I owned it.

 

If it was air in the line I'd think the intermittent issue would show more regularly. I drove the Jeep to work and to lunch today and not one soft brake incident.