I'm getting seriously hacked off with the damn thing now. 4 years of my life & every spare penny I've had, plus an awful lot of work, not just by me, but a whole team of superstars, & we could lose it all for the sake of these poxy brakes. I'm not a happy bunny.
Got a week to get it fixed, but even if I manage to complete Kev's list of tasks, we haven't got the equipment to test it to VOSA standards, so will have to go for the test not knowing if we've suceeded or not.
We're right back where we were
weeks, months ago. The pedal drops on the first push, then pumps up on subsequent pushes -that'd be a fail on the test.
I've got to drive Taz down to Southampton in the morning, but will head straight to the workshop from there. First job will be to make a new pushrod to connect the brake pedal to the master cylinder, then alter the drop arm that connects the pushrod to the pedal, then rebuild the chassis pedal mount. When the pedal's pushed, the rod moves through an arc, rather than a straight line, ("vectoring"). That means we're losing a lot of braking effort & every pound is critical.
Phunkie Hiboy kindly supplied an anti-lock valve, to make sure the rear wheels don't lock before the fronts, but after Kev spent the afternoon fitting it, it seems to have created more problems than it's solved. So it's gotta come back out. Basically we need to get back to the point we were at yesterday, then try & lose the pedal drop.
As Kev says, I'm on my own now, but think I'll have to go fetch him later next week.
Another week & this truck becomes scrap metal.
