Good solid feedback, many thanks, will consider them for sure.
Good solid feedback, many thanks, will consider them for sure.
Yeti's Beast (8th December 2018)
Tinkered under the hood , relocating some relays etc.
Went for a drive before to grab a pizza and after taking off I had NO brakes. The pedal was stiff as a post ! I shit my pants. I was onto that pedal like a rash, I'm pretty sure i nearly dislodged my seat mounts ... And nothing ! She was not dropping anchors ... Lucky I didn't get up to speed . Clutch worked fine , so I initially thought it can't be vacuum related.
Then it dawned on me I did take a vacuum hose off earlier to measure diameter and it never went back on... Idiot !
This was my first vacuum less experience ...
I was not aware that brakes relied THIS much on vacuum boosting power ? I thought a Bit more extra foot on the pedal will apply enough pressure without vacuum.
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Scary stuff mate!!! Lucky no one was hurt and sounds like you dodged a massive bullet!Originally Posted by Hodge
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Scary stuff I hear you too Hodgey mate!
Accidentally bumped off a tiny say 2mm rubber cap near the vacuum cannister tinkering last year out bush. Vacuum system checks has now moved up quite high on my daily’s out there, packed my dacks on one hill good and proper :-)
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jay see (9th December 2018), MB (10th December 2018), rusty_nail (9th December 2018), Yeti's Beast (9th December 2018)
Scary shit when the car your driving doesn't do what you want.
Not brakes, but I undid one if the large clamps near the accelerator linkage a while ago and when I put it back on it wasn't in the same spot. Went for a spin and the trol won't pull up, thought it was something with the brakes. Had to drive in the bike lane ended up in 1st with the handbrake up and still didn't come to a complete stop, last straw was to shut down the engine. Popped the bonnet and the screw part of the clamp was on the wrong side of the cable...
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Plenty of go but no whoa!! Did you try and pump the pedal? Did it have any noticeable effect?
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I don't think I did. Would that have helped? I've never been in such circumstances. I just tried to press the pedal a few times really hard, and got zero activity...
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If your vac line was completely off Hodgey mate nothing would help there but brute force I would imagine. My little dack crapping experience was likened to a descent vac leak and was overcome by heal & toe keeping the revs up until a safe stopping flat was found for fault finding.
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I really don't know. I was hoping you did it so you could tell us if it worked, or not. You could be brave and try it again and let us know the outcome.
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