[T3] Battery Install, Oil Change & Brake Fluid Reservoir

[Gary Forsmo]

Jim -

Thanks for your comments.

You can expect a phone call from me in the near future.   Re: Brakes.

Now that the weather has warmed up, I hope we can find a mutual date/time
to meet at your place.

I will buy another can of DOT 5 Brake Fluid even though the Reservoir is
full.  Just in case.

On Sat, May 11, 2024, 4:40 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 11 May 2024 at 13:54, Gary Forsmo wrote:
>
> > The Brake Pedal felt "soft" and had, what I felt was, too much travel to
> > safely stop the car. A.)  Where did the Brake Fluid go? B.)  What other
> > areas should be checked? C.)  Master Cylinder leak? D.)  A leak somewhere
> > that is hidden from view?
>
> It's normal for the fluid level to go down as the disk brake pads wear: As
> the
> pads wear, the pistons move in, so more fluid is "stored" behind the
> pistons
> and less remains in the reservoir.
>
> If fluid has actually leaked out, look for wetness on the inside faces of
> the
> rear backing plates, and on the floor under the brake pedal. A common leak
> place is from the mouth of the master cyl. You can reach in there and just
> barely get a finger to the low point on the underside of the boot that
> covers
> the mouth. If your finger comes away wet, there's your leak.
>
> A leak there usually just requires a quick hone of the front few mm of the
> MC
> bore, but this still requires draining the system and pulling the MC out.
>
> --
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> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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