it sounds like you got a leak on your cylinder so replace it or
repair.it...(master cylinder)it cant cost too much for a repaire kit.
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 06:46 +0530, Raminder Malik wrote:
> I had exactly the same problem on my 405 Turbo diesel. One every 2-3
> days the pedal used to go down fully when I wanted to brake. Worked
> perfectly after pumping it once or twice.. Very scary, and very
> unsafe
> to let somebody somebody else drive. Brakes becam perfect after
> replacing two O rings on the master cylinder plungers.
>
> Raminder
>
> jeffrobenjo wrote:
>
> > My 1989 405DL (150,000 miles) has had a softish pedal for a few
> > months. The front pads are very worn (I'm about to replace them),
> but
> > there seem to be no external leaks from any part of the system, the
> > brake reservoir is filled, and the servo appears to be OK. But
> > occasionally on starting up, the pedal sinks low; just today it went
> > to the floor and I had to pump it three times to get braking. When
> > the brakes are there, the pedal does not particularly seem to drift
> > down when applying steady pressure, but as I said it's soft anyway
> so
> > it's a little hard to tell.
> >
> > If it were just a soft pedal, the advice would be to replace the
> pads
> > and bleed the system. But would air in the system be consistent
> with
> > this intermittent dropout of the pedal?
> >
> > I'm guessing the master cylinder should be replaced - but has anyone
> > else seen this kind of intermittent loss of braking on this car?
> >
> >
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