RE: Brake problems.

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Hmm.... Just get out & give the pedal a good work out & check again. 
If
you still find no leaks, go with bleeding them.... No luck, new 
master
cylinder.

I'll take the new master cylinder for $8 bucks please.  Ok everyone, I 
tried bleeding my brakes, in the process I broke off two bleeder 
valves, one on the left front caliber and one on the right rear drum. 
 I figure all I need to do is buy a new brake cylinder for the rear 
drum, but my question is:  Do I need to buy a new caliber for the 
front or is there some other way to get around this problem? I did go 
ahead and bleed the rest of the system to no avail.  Also there are no 
leaks anywhere.

With this determined I went to my local junkyard and claimed an MC 
from a MKII.  This master cylinder doesn't look like mine (Old - one 
brake line coming from each side going to left & right front, one 
switch coming out of each side and two more brake lines coming out of 
the bottom going to the lft and rt rear; NEW - two brake lines coming 
out of either side at about a 45 degree angle to the ground going to 
front and back brakes).  To counter this I also acquired the brake 
lines to fit.  First question, will I be able to get this to work?

Next item is the fact that my MC has two switches attached to it, one 
on the left side and one on the right side.  The new MC is not 
compatible for these two switches.  What are these switches for? And 
do I REQUIRE them?

Thanks for getting me this far (still have no brakes :-(),

John
80 Scirocco S

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