grant v
New Member
This was an interesting experience. I went through to Johannesburg (about 60km from Pretoria) on Saturday morning to fetch a waterpump, and suddenly, while braking for a red light, the brake pedal hit the floor board. The rear brakes, fortunately, still worked, but locked up and there was a hairy moment while the 6.9 slid across the line almost into the intersection.
I thought that the pads were stuffed, as the warning light had been on for a while, but (after a change of underwear) I managed to gently get the car to a Kwik Fit close by, where they changed the pads for me. But there was no difference. So at 60km/h, lots of following distance and much anticipation, I made it back to Pretoria on the highway.
It was white knuckle stuff, because, even at idle, a 6.9 wants to leap forward with all it's Newton-Meters. Thank goodness for dual circuit braking systems and credit needs to go to the 6.9 engineers that this behemouth can still be stopped on the rear brakes alone!
I've now put new seals into the master cylinder, but still need to bleed the system, so we'll see what happens. Frustrating, as I had the master cylinder professionally reconditioned about three years go.
I thought that the pads were stuffed, as the warning light had been on for a while, but (after a change of underwear) I managed to gently get the car to a Kwik Fit close by, where they changed the pads for me. But there was no difference. So at 60km/h, lots of following distance and much anticipation, I made it back to Pretoria on the highway.
It was white knuckle stuff, because, even at idle, a 6.9 wants to leap forward with all it's Newton-Meters. Thank goodness for dual circuit braking systems and credit needs to go to the 6.9 engineers that this behemouth can still be stopped on the rear brakes alone!
I've now put new seals into the master cylinder, but still need to bleed the system, so we'll see what happens. Frustrating, as I had the master cylinder professionally reconditioned about three years go.
