A friend recently purchased a 72 Spitfire with less than 3k total miles!!
Everything worked ok until about 2 weeks ago when the brake warning light
came on. He checked for leaks and the functioning of the pwd valve and
bled the system. No leaks were found and the pwd and the brakes seemed to
function properly, but the light was still on. He then took the car to a
K-Mart repair shop (big mistake) they said he needed a new master cylinder
and returned the car to him with the brakes barely working at all (pedal
would hold only momentarily and then slowly go to the floor).
Since then he has bleed the brakes several times and has attempted to
re-center the pwd valve. The brakes work ok for a short time, but then the
sponginess returns to the pedal and the warning light comes on. There are
no leaks in the system anywhere.
Is this a MC problem? If not, any ideas on what he should do next?
Barry H. Adams
74 Spitfire
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