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Re: No Brakes... Bad



** Reply to note from Frenzel <gfrenzel@bitstream.net> Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:06:09 -0500
>
> elsewhere?). My brakes work great at moderate braking rates but when I
> have to stop abruptly, the car slows, the peddle sinks to the floor and
> the tires refuse to lock, I can pump the brake again and get the tires to
> lock with whatever residual pressure is in the lines, but if I have time
> to pump the brakes, what the hell am I stopping that suddenly for anyway,
> right?

  Happened to me way back in 83, with my 77 Rabbit. Turned out to be a worn
master cylinder.  By the end of that year, I got (and still have) my 84 8v.

  Jean-Claude
  ICQ: 47403427

  84 8v

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