[Roadsters] Brake pedal soft

[Tim]

Thanks for the suggestions all. Especially the "quick and easy" ones. Those are the kinds of advice I need: the quickly checked and verified and then either fixed or discarded as being ok. 

I had forgotten about adjusting the rears--mush brain strikes again. And I was not able to move the rear adjuster on one wheel so I did the PB Blaster thing to it. Hopefully today I can move it as this is what I am betting is the issue. (the rubber hoses are all ok.) Then I will soak the other side--it was getting too late in the day yesterday to jack the other side up (again) and then remove the wheel (again). 

What do people use on the rear adjuster (besides a crescent wrench)? I do not want to round the corners.

I don't think it is the rotors; wouldn't I feel the warp/out of round, in the pedal? I know I have felt bad rotors in a couple of our fleet cars at work.

thanks again all, very much!

Tim


---- Steve Jacobson <jake7140 at yahoo.com> wrote: 

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Tim,
Sounds like it could be rotor runout.  If the rotors "wobble" they will push
the pistons back into the caliper too far, then you have to push twice; once
to get them back in range or touching a bit, once to do the real braking. In
between of course they can lget pushed back in a little.

This assuming that you can sit in the garage and mash the pedal and hold it
for a time without it going down.  It should be a firm pedal pretty quickly. 
In other words, not a lot of travel once the pads get to the rotor. If not,
could be more air in their yet compressing easier than the fluid.

Steve


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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:53:25 -0700
From: Tim <tputland at charter.net>
Subject: [Roadsters] Brake pedal still to soft
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I just bled the brakes on my 70 2000 again. The pedal seemed better at first
but once I had the car on the road it was soft and needed to be pumped to get
a decent feel. I have what look to be new pads on the front.

Do I still have air in the line(s)? Any thing else it might be?

Tim
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