>Barry H. Adams wrote:
>>
>> 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?
Just a thought, can't remember who it was now, but someone on this list from
the UK was having a similiar problem after rebuilding his dual circuit master
cylinder, and we traced the problem to one of the seals had been put in back to
front, so that only one system was working right!
Rich
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