Brake problems

[boisfort@myhome.net (Decker)]

Hi Kervin;
    I think you might need a new master cylinder. I have resurrected many
dead A1 VW's and if they have set a few years and the rear wheel cylinders
leak when you replace the rear wheel cylinders and bleed the brakes you blow
the master cylinder. I guess there is crud in the master cylinder bore
beyond it's normal travel and with bleeding one crosses that threshold and
it's all over. In an A1 that hasn't had brakes bled in many years I would
guess it is almost a 50 - 50 change that one will have to replace the master
cylinder when one bleeds the brakes.
Brian Decker


> I put on some new park brake cables this weekend, replaced all the
> springs in my drum brakes and put in some super blue brake fluid.  I got
> to use my new pressure bleeder.  What a nice tool!  Anyway, I was
> helping two other friends at the same time and kinda lost track of what
> I was doing. I stepped on the brake pedal without the drivers side drum
> on the car.  Fluid came out the brake cylinder.  I didn't think it was
> that big of a deal, but now it's like I only have half braking power.
> There is twice the pedal travel and pumping the brakes does not make
> things feel any different.  Does it sound like I did something bad to
> the passenger side brake cylinder?  It's a re-man unit from auto zone so
> I can just take it back, but I wanted some thoughts from the list.
> Along the same lines, I'm thinking about going to rear discs.  Do the VW
> A2 discs really fit on if I just flip them over?  I'm going to the junk
> yard this week for a tranny, so i thought I'd look for some of those
> calipers if they will work.
> --
> Kervin
> 86 Scirocco 2.0 8v 4K+80% and lots of other numbers and letters
> 88 Gti 1.8 16v Not done and now it's winter :(
> 00 tt600