[Mgs] confessions of a LBC lover

[Richard Ewald]

Look at the rears first then.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 5, 2012, at 19:42, Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, I felt it in both. More pronounced in the brakes.
>
> On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Richard Ewald wrote:
>
>> Was the pulsation in the steering wheel or the brake pedal?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 16:40, Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We're out of town at my brothers this week And I drove his non-MG  lbc
that
>>> will remain nameless (ok, its a 1980 and  starts with a T and ends with a
7!).
>>> Thing is I really like the  car. Always have.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, something strange is happening with the brakes.  He notice a
little
>>> clunking noise, that seemed to come from the front left.  Then a pulsing
>>> coming from the brakes.
>>>
>>> I drove it home, and didn't have the noise or the pulse on the first
braking.
>>> However the next time it did make huge pulsing, almost like grinding,
like
>>> there was a chunk out of the rotor. Then we got on the highway for 3
miles
>>> staying on the right, and probably not getting above 60. I costed down
the
>>> offramp and then the pulse was gone. And the mile and a half home on
surface
>>> roads, sill no pulsing or noise.  It's almost as if something was in the
>>> brakes and fell out.
>>>
>>> We don't have time tonight to pull the wheel tonight. I'm sure he'll get
to it
>>> soon though.
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