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Jan 30th, 2004, 15:45 | #21 |
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RE: Brake pedal on 1978 244DL
I hope all goes well Neil. Have you had a look at brickboard.com ? It's based in America, and has hundreds of threads running about every single aspect of running 240s, and every other Volvo too. Worth doing a search on a topic, or starting a new one. I have found it a real eye-opener - there are people there with incredible knowledge and experience, and they are all really patient as a sucession of people keep asking old questions. Brakes, master cylinders, pressure valves, calipers are a favouite topic.
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Jan 31st, 2004, 12:22 | #22 |
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RE: Brake pedal on 1978 244DL
Never tried brickboard.com before but as you say it is a real eye opener as every subject is dealt with here.
Any way to reset the pressure drop warning valve, I tried the heavy boot approach and held the brake pedal down for 60 secs and the warning light flickered a couple of times. So I then drove the car up and down the drive a couple of times and braked harder each time until after about 7 runs the light went out and stayed out. At least I now have good brakes front and rear but the old fluid has to be changed and the old rear calipers exchanged for the new ones. I may wait untill after the M.O.T. retest to do this as getting the old calipers off with out breaking the end off the brake pipes where they enter the calipers is not guaranteed. I'll let you know how I get on.
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Feb 9th, 2004, 10:07 | #23 |
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RE: Brake pedal on 1978 244DL
Hi All.
The retest was this morning at 8.15am and she passed. However the brake failure warning light keeps coming on when the car is restarted and goes out when the brake pedal is pressed hard, sometimes it takes a few goes to get it to go out. So I pulled the wire off the pressure drop warning valve so the tester did not see it and the computor and the rolling road brake tester showed that the brakes, front and rear were up to standard. The tester even stated that 'you could not get much better than that'. I will now fit the new rear calipers, bleed the system and with luck the presure drop valve will correct itself.
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