My 82 rabbit's brakes are doing some abnormal things:
Brake light turns on when I brake, and recently the light stays on indefinitely regardless of braking.
Stopping distance has increased dramatically, to where it is no longer safe to drive.
Spongy brake pedal hits the floor with little resistance, a sound of air escaping is heard during pedal depression, brakes slow the car down but very ineffectively, pumping seems to have no effect.
Brake fluid reservoir level seems normal, I see no leaks at any line junctions, the brakes have not been worked on for 2 years so I don't imagine air has entered into the system unless gnomes are the culprits.
Emergency brake cable has been ineffective for over a year.
An unfamiliar hissing sound has been coming from the driver side of the engine compartment while the car is running for a few months now, before my braking issues, but I have not been able to locate it despite several attempts to block or alter the sound by feeling and or moving vacuum hoses, and feeling around the servo+master cylinder, nor do I know if the sound is even related to my brake system.
Bentley tells me to check my fluid, or adjust my shoes, or that the spring in my master cylinder is weak.
I've had a leak in my servo before, many years ago, but that made the pedal stiffer, not spongy, and more force was needed to brake but the car was still safe to drive plus the extra leg workout. This makes me think that the vacuum side of things is not part of my problem.
Could my master cylinder just be ****ting the bed? does this happen? could sticky shoes and seized E-brake cables be causing this?
Brake light turns on when I brake, and recently the light stays on indefinitely regardless of braking.
Stopping distance has increased dramatically, to where it is no longer safe to drive.
Spongy brake pedal hits the floor with little resistance, a sound of air escaping is heard during pedal depression, brakes slow the car down but very ineffectively, pumping seems to have no effect.
Brake fluid reservoir level seems normal, I see no leaks at any line junctions, the brakes have not been worked on for 2 years so I don't imagine air has entered into the system unless gnomes are the culprits.
Emergency brake cable has been ineffective for over a year.
An unfamiliar hissing sound has been coming from the driver side of the engine compartment while the car is running for a few months now, before my braking issues, but I have not been able to locate it despite several attempts to block or alter the sound by feeling and or moving vacuum hoses, and feeling around the servo+master cylinder, nor do I know if the sound is even related to my brake system.
Bentley tells me to check my fluid, or adjust my shoes, or that the spring in my master cylinder is weak.
I've had a leak in my servo before, many years ago, but that made the pedal stiffer, not spongy, and more force was needed to brake but the car was still safe to drive plus the extra leg workout. This makes me think that the vacuum side of things is not part of my problem.
Could my master cylinder just be ****ting the bed? does this happen? could sticky shoes and seized E-brake cables be causing this?