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

[Gary Forsmo]

If you inspected the front brake pads & rear brake shoes, would you expect
to find sufficient "wear" that allows the Brake Pedal having* too much*
travel before the car is slowed?

My other concern is:
1.)  Pulling the Emergeny Brake Lever as hard as I can with my limited
strength,  stroke-affected, right arm, the car rolls *forward* even on our
sloped driveway from garage to the street.

I haven't checked the "car roll" with the E-brake engaged & the rear of the
car facing on the down-slope toward the street.  The slope is opposite of
yours & is greater than your driveway toward your garage.

Our driveway is not as sloped as Yuma Drive is, in front of your home.

A.)  Possibly stretched cable?
B.)  Excessively worn rear shoes that need to be adjusted?

Is the above info any help to you?

On Mon, May 13, 2024, 1:48 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 13 May 2024 at 11:50, Gary Forsmo wrote:
>
> > The liquid quantities & prices for DOT 5 seem to be all over the map. The
> > lowest is $6.42 for 11oz. The highest is $124.95 for 1 gallon.
>
> The 11 oz bottle would be fine for you, if you only need topping up
> quantities. If you pull the master, that might still be enough, depending
> on
> where the leak is.
>
> > Searching for GE or Dow Chemical, as a manufacturer of DOT 5, seems to be
> > elusive.  But I'm not the most capable  "researcher", either.
>
> I'm not sure how one might confirm that fact. It was something I learned
> over
> the years of researching DoT-5.
>
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