Brakes Failing !

[marinabrid]

Hi all

Hope someone can shed some light on this,

Went for drive yesterday and had to pull up sharply, i noticed the pedal seemed to go down further than normal and took longer to stop, mind  i did have 4 kids and wife on board, then the brakes seemed normal until i reused them a few times,  whats happening is    if i drive say 1/2 mile  and use brakes normally  its stops fine  but then if i need to reuse the brakes very shortly after   the pedal is going hard   very hard   like there is no servo help,   theres no hissing or anything,  no lost fluid, just a very hard pedal,  the servo was replaced a few years ago and only done a few thousand miles since.

 

left overnight  and same thing this morning, use pedal once and is fine  car stops as normal   but then if i want to stop again  the pedal keeps going very hard  until i drive a bit longer    that seems to put the brakes back to normal   till i use them again   and then  another hard pedal.

 

Any ideas welcomed.

[marinabrid]

have looked on here and seems a common problem,   i got a split where the pipe from the servo joins the little valve,   one chap on here has repaired with  self amalgamating tape,     what is this  and who sells it,  or is it wise to spend the

[chromedome]

Brake failure.........4 kids..............I would spend the

[marinabrid]

mmm thats what i though,  does the pipe simply push fit at both ends, it seems to be a shrunk on fitting , how do you remove or refit it that case ?  looks like you need rubber hands and elbows to access it !

Edited April 14, 2014 by marinabrid

[derekod]

I have just replaced mine it was split in three places, at the servo and at both ends of the elbow connection at the vacuum pump.

It is awkward to route if you are going to do it from above as I found out, you will be feeding it blind in places.

On mine it was snapped it to three clips to hold it in place, but I only managed to secure it back to two of them.

There is a white alignment marker which should be secured on to the middle clip.

If there is any vacuum left in the servo just pump the brake pedal to release it, it will make it easier removing the fitting from the servo end.

You also might have to pry of the fitting on the vacuum pump side as it was tight on mine.

I will have to drop the under body tray at some point to make sure that it is routed without obstruction, just for piece of mind.