badger Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Well what a weird weekend i've had I took my mk6 for mot on friday and it failed on a coil spring and the brakes. Now the car has been in a garage for two years and the brakes were seized solid when we pulled it out but i thought i'd free'd them up but i know something wasn't quite right when i drove it to mot station. The brake test showed that the front brakes were grabing sharply so that was were the problem was. Great i thought i took it home and striped the front calipers and found them not seized i put them back on and tried to bleed them and for some reason they wouldn't bleed properly. So I thought it must be master cylinder so i striped that down. Everything looked ok and was working so i re-assembled everything, fitted it all back together and bleed it ??? still no good so i thought the master cylinder must be kaput. ....and off to scrapie I went £15 later I was on way home with working master cylinder, fitted it went to bleed everything but still not right. Now I was confused so i started opening conections to try and find the solution and after a little detective work i found the fault was both front flexible hoses, i'm not sure what had happened to them and i had never seen anything like it before both hoses had closed up, there was no sign of swelling they looked perfect but £50 later and 2 new pipes all is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TSR157 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 flexy hoses collapse inside , i have had that prob many times not just on fords, pleased you have done it m8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escort Cabriolet Club Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Brakes need to be tip top mate and by the sounds of it yours are now !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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