This is too wild - could it be the exhaust manifold/pipe
heating up the brake lines just below the master cylinder?
I always thought that brake fluid was stable in a pretty
wide temp range - how about water in the fluid getting hot
somehow?
Bryan
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Mark Pilkington wrote:
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> On My 62 Dormobile, What does the following mean?
> When it is cold and has not run for a while, the brake
pedal
> feels a little
> spongy.. After driving it awhile, the pedal gets harder
and
> harder and the brakes
> slowly engage. The pedal eventually is as solid as a block
> of wood and all the
> wheels are hot and locked up and I am completely
stationary.
> Let it cool and
> everything starts again. To get it going so I am not
sitting
> by the side of the
> road with four locked wheels I loosened a bleed nipple on a
> front wheel and let out
> a high pressure squirt of brake fluid and immediately
> retightened the nipple. This
> gave a little play to the pedal and I could drive off. But
> the brakes would slowly
> bind again and I would shift down through the gears and the
> wheels would heat up
> and I would grind to a halt agian. This happens every 10
> miles, more if I am
> braking a lot. What is causing this and how do I fix it.
> Kind regards,
> Mark Pilkington
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