Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

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Rich H
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Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

Post by Rich H » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:12 pm

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Brown soup in place of brake fluid! With lumps in!

Will be fixed tomorrow! :D Might have to take the drums off the back and check them too.
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Re: Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

Post by Andy » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:27 pm

Yuck! :o

At first I though it was an oil filter not your brake piston :oops: :lol:

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Re: Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

Post by Rich H » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:52 pm

Cleaned it out with some xylene and its sparkly again. Put it all back together with new seals and it should be like new (ish!)
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Re: Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

Post by r055 » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:14 pm

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off topic, but did you ever get the elise fixed after the vectra incident Rich?
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Re: Why my Porker has rubbish brakes... FALC

Post by Rich H » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:17 pm

Yes! Quite a while ago, all paid for by his insurance! Got a nice shiny clam for the moment ;)
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