Hope the new brake lines solve all of the problems and the car is back on the road soon.
Hope so too - though I believe the brakes on these cars were never that great even when new.
Chris
Hope the new brake lines solve all of the problems and the car is back on the road soon.
Heap of fun indeed (particularly with a 1600 twin cam and twin down draft webers).
But back to 500F brakes. One thing I really enjoy in the 500 is the challenge to maintain momentum, avoiding the use of brakes as much as possible. The road is much bigger than in other cars so you can go round corners and through round abouts more easily.?
Hope the new brake lines solve all of the problems and the car is back on the road soon.
though I believe the brakes on these cars were never that great even when new.Chris
I agree, now mine have bedded in (they were awful when new), I have almost forgotten to use the caution I used to; it improves the fun in driving when you know you can stop.Mine work very well indeed, as I found out today when someone pulled out in front of me.
H A
I would change the master cylinder , they are so cheap, and not hard to do.
My view on brakes is they need to be perfect, I have had a master cylinder failure in the past, using the hand brake to stop is exciting.
On mine I replaced everything except the back plates and drums, total cost about £120, money well spent I would say.
H A
This does sometimes happen- you can unscrew the end cap from the master cylinder that your original switch was threaded into and swap it over to the new master cylinder if you don't want to wait...
It seems a bit strange that it doesn't fit- Unless you have a 500R (no switch hole or thread) they should be all much the same, unless somebody has re-tapped the end plug to a different thread for an alternative brake switch.
What happens when you quickly pump the pedal? Does it firm up then?So I received the brake switch and of course it still didn't fit! Turned out I received a badly threaded end cap. I had to go buy a 10mm-1.00 tap and repair the threads.
MC installed, bled the brakes and still the pedal goes almost all the way to the floor. What now? Couldn't there still be air in the system?
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Bought a vacuum bleeder kit from my local auto parts shop and gave that a whirl. Still no pressure on the brake pedal. Not sure what else to do. Air still getting in the system somehow?
Is there supposed to be a clamp on the hose that goes to the reservoir on the nipple? It's the only thing I can think of. I'm at my whits end now.
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Bought a vacuum bleeder kit from my local auto parts shop and gave that a whirl. Still no pressure on the brake pedal. Not sure what else to do. Air still getting in the system somehow?
Is there supposed to be a clamp on the hose that goes to the reservoir on the nipple? It's the only thing I can think of. I'm at my whits end now.
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I had this with my car and it nearly drove me insane:bang:
I used a vacuum bleeder and eventually figured it was down to the tiny bleed screws on the wheel cylinders. I finally started to get some solid feel when I carefully wrapped some PTFE plumber's tape around the threads of the bleed nipples..technically not a good move, and slackened them by a very minimal amount when bleeding.
On the first few runs the brakes were pretty rubbish but eventually the shoes bedded in and the adjusters took up the slack.
I really do feel your pain
Is there supposed to be a clamp on the hose that goes to the reservoir on the nipple?