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brake master
yes, I was talking about brake master, concern of single bowl, my buddy has a 99 ranger single bowl, had a pin hole leak front driver side, lost all his brakes, pretty scary, why would they put a single bowl? pete
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Why would they put single bowl? Cost. In addition, it should have still kept the brake fluid in the 'other' side of the system that did not leak. When you step on the pedal, the pistons in the master move, trapping the fluid as the piston passes an orifice. The fluid on the 'other' side should not have disappeared, and should have still kept the brakes working.
The 'failure' was likely just what you get brake-wise when you lose the disk half, long stopping distances. I'd bet a donut that the operator still had brake pedal during the 'failure'.
Take a look at a cutaway master, and you'll see that a single cavity reservoir should work fine.
tom
The 'failure' was likely just what you get brake-wise when you lose the disk half, long stopping distances. I'd bet a donut that the operator still had brake pedal during the 'failure'.
Take a look at a cutaway master, and you'll see that a single cavity reservoir should work fine.
tom
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his rear brakes were probably typical in that they were way out of adjustment and thus the feeling of no brakes. Supposedly these have self adjusters but if you dont periodically do the stops to keep adjusted they will get way out and then you are using the fronts more than required.
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