Help no brakes !!

Post by **Dad W** » 21 Feb 2006 09:25 pm

Ocassionally the brake pedal suddenly goes hard and a lot of pressure is needed to stop the car(340) Only seems to happen in Leicester Cannot see any obvious faults, split pipes or loose connections between inlet manifold and servo. Can any one help. ta

Post by **340GLT** » 21 Feb 2006 09:29 pm

Have you tried bleeding the brakes?
Cheers Adam

Post by **ebdl** » 21 Feb 2006 09:34 pm

Maybe you just need to avoid Leicester...

Post by **classicswede** » 21 Feb 2006 09:45 pm

It could be master cylinder - maybe
has the fluid ever been changed?

Post by **daffodil** » 21 Feb 2006 09:45 pm

hi check the servo pipe at the manifold end....it usually colapses in side
i would repace it anyway

Post by **foggyjames** » 21 Feb 2006 10:08 pm

daffodil wrote:hi check the servo pipe at the manifold end....it usually colapses in side
i would repace it anyway

I'd second that.

Avoiding Leicester is definitely good advice

cheers

James

Post by **pettaw** » 21 Feb 2006 10:19 pm

Depends how hard the pedal was. If it was harder than normal but still possible to stop the car, then I'd go with the servo hose.

If it was hard and you really couldn't stop it at all I'd say something was going duff in the master cylinder.

Post by **Dad W** » 21 Feb 2006 10:34 pm

Thanks Peeps
Avoiding leicester not an option user lives there.(Some bodies got to.)
Will checkout hose and bleed brakes

Post by **jtbo** » 22 Feb 2006 02:43 am

In very cold weather -25C to -30C my brakes seem to become non servo brakes, like driving real old car without brake servo, so one need to pull from steering wheel and push pedal with full power. Seems to affect to engine rpm's too.
This can happen several times in few minutes, then sometimes pedal get sucked down and engine rpm wen't up, of course car started to braking.

Now with warmer weather -4C to -15C there has not been that problem. Need to check that hose if there is some problem, but don't know if it can make all of this.

Post by **redline** » 22 Feb 2006 09:22 am

picked up our new caravan from

Proctors Pleasure Park in Loughborough

I have never seen a toilet in side a shit hole before lol

Post by **jtbo** » 24 Feb 2006 09:07 am

redline wrote:picked up our new caravan from

Proctors Pleasure Park in Loughborough

I have never seen a toilet in side a shit hole before lol

Huh? What did you smoked again

Or was it me

Post by **redline** » 24 Feb 2006 10:57 am

this review should make it clearer,

Reviews of Proctors Pleasure Park
These reviews are the comments of individual visitors to Information Britain and should not be taken as the views of Crawbar Ltd - publishers of this web site

Review by Mr H Dillon on 10th July, 2005
I advise anyone staying at this park to have their own toilet or take a look around before setting up.For the first time ever we forgot to check out the facilities before setting up the trailor tent. The toilet blocks were old, the doors for each cubical were rotten and they were very unclean. The advice I give to you is to visit it before advertising, as it was disgusting. The first time in 8 years of camping we packed up and drove on to Derby. Even the static caravans on the site had not been used for years and were in pieces. you can't believe it unless you see it!

Date visited: 8/07/2005

Review by Angela Mason on 4th August, 2005
If you want a very basic camp site with few facilities, this is the camp site to use. It is mainly a caravan site for static, touring and storage of caravans. The majority of static vans are damaged, rusting or in ruins. Not designed with campers in mind. Hedgrerows are filled with recycled caravan parts and there are areas where mobile homes have been burned. The shower block is very, very old and the only benifit is it has hot water. The site is crying out for investment and a face lift. No wash up area as stated by many links, no maned reception office. no childrens play area and only one water supply to be found. Full uncovered bins. The 'bar' only opens once a week on a Friday. No on site shop. It is by far the most disappointing capmsite I have used in the 30 years of camping I have done. The patch of grass we used was mown but had litter on it and there were derilict caravans in every direction. You could not see the wonderful fishing pools and waterways due to overgrown hedgerows. Evenings were disturbed by the constant drone of the nearby dual carridge way and the local cat which constantly crawled under the fly sheet. Conclusion, we will not be recommeding or returning to this site.

Date visited: 2nd August 2005

so thats the toilet and Loughborough is the shit hole lol

Post by **jtbo** » 25 Feb 2006 08:55 am

rofl, sounds like some finnish camping facility, those generally are bad, imo

Post by **BaldBackTyres** » 25 Feb 2006 02:44 pm

the servo pipe that goes to the manifold always gets sucked closed after a bit of running so i cut mine about to about 2inches long just to join the servo pipe to manifold, doesnt have room to close now not had a problem

Post by **mtucker** » 17 Apr 2006 03:38 pm

BaldBackTyres wrote:the servo pipe that goes to the manifold always gets sucked closed after a bit of running so i cut mine about to about 2inches long just to join the servo pipe to manifold, doesnt have room to close now not had a problem

I'm experiencing the same problem, has this fixed it for other people?