[TR] seeking brake knowledge

Jim Muller jimmuller at rcn.com
Sun Apr 27 17:00:57 MDT 2008


On 27 Apr 2008 at 18:53, dorpaul wrote:

> If (hypothetical only) there is a rear wheel cylinder, whose brake line
> fitting, fails to tighten sufficiently (so as to slowly leak brake fluid)..
> Will this necessarily empty the brake fluid's reservoir?

Yo, Paul.  It will eventually drain the reservoir but that isn't the 
big problem.  If it has a leak any more than the tinniest, tinniest 
trickle it won't hold much pressure.  This means that any other wheel 
on the same hydraulic line won't either.  So you won't be getting 
much braking from it.  If it's on the rear you'll get braking from 
the front, which is where most braking happens anyway, until you ever 
have a problem on the front such as a broken hose.  When that happens 
you will catastrophically discover that you don't have any braking on 
the rear either.

You are much better off fixing that leak!

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+


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