From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Feb 16 2006 - 18:47:06 PST
You cannot be a Frenchman. We will not allow it.
apb
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|
From: "GotaM35" <gotam35@joetrapp.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 Brake help needed
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>
|
| > Can you roll the truck, in neutral, using something else to push or tow
| > it?
| > Sounds like the brakes are locked up, maybe due to a crimped line, or a
| > defective MC?
|
| When I discovered the "peddle to the metal" a few weeks ago I was moving
it
| around in the yard just to charge the batteries and remove the cargo cover
| in the drive way instead of under the trees. No real braking was needed.
I
| immediately checked the fluid and it was full. That ruled out, I think,
| that I had lost any fluid or was not building pressure because of a leak.
I
| have owned many crop pay vehicles in my time and leaky wheel cylinders and
| shot master cylinders have yielded these results. I was very surprised
| yesterday when I performed the "would not move with the brakes to the
floor"
| test. No resistance on the peddle at all. It will move quite well under
| it's own power with the peddle up.
|
| My guess is a bad master cylinder. I am assuming the air booster will
| provide some braking under these circumstances. I assume this because the
| master cylinder provides brake fluid to the booster which then magically
| uses air to increase the hydraulic pressure. I have not studied it well
| enough to know what I am talking about. Yet I still talk (maybe I could
be
| a French politician).
|
| Joe Trapp
|
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