[AMC-list] brakes

["Dan Strohl" <DStrohl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those of you interested in my travails, I tracked down the source of
my brake frustrations. As was suggested here, I took the AMX for a few
laps around town to knock any rust off the rotors, but found that the
brakes remained inconsistent, feeling firm one minute and going limp the
next. I bled and re-bled the brakes before discovering a minor leak in
one of the front lines. It looks like the leak wasn't enough to cause a
complete loss of front brakes, but was enough to admit air into the
system and thus cause the erratic braking. Ordered a new brake line over
the Internet (of course no local parts stores carry brake lines for a
1979 AMX), and should have it fixed shortly.

Lesson of the day: Visually inspect everything in a system you're having
trouble with and, as always, assume nothing.

dan
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