Re: [Amc-list] Marlin brake failier
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Re: [Amc-list] Marlin brake failier



Sounds like somethign let loose all right.
If you didn't get a violent pull to the left or right I'd suspect the rear. 
Check fluid level first to see if it dropped off. 

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Wayne E LaMothe <superglider@xxxxxxxx>
> Could be the booster but sounds more like a spring let loose in one of
> the drum brakes.
> 
>  
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:16:23 -0400 "KENT ANDERSON"
> <65marlin327@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Here's one for the WOW list... driving home this evening I put my 
> > foot on the brake pedal, and there was a loud BANG, and no brakes to 
> > speak of.  I had them by pushing really hard on the pedal, but that 
> > was it.  It sounded, also, like I was dragging something, but by the 
> > time I got around the corner and stopped, that was gone.  I saw 
> > nothing hanging under the car, and was able to carefully drive it 
> > the two miles left to the house.
> > 
> > Is this possibly a booster failier problem?  The entire brake 
> > system, except the booster, was replaced some four years ago.
> > 
> > Kenny
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