Re: [doc] brakes

["jamesrguk" <James_rg@xxxx>]

Tony,

I had a fairly long chat with the chap who was selling your car 
before you brought it as I too was fairly interested in buying it 
(bit of a pipe dream for financial reasons at the time).

Anyway he told me that the break master cylinder was still mounted on 
the original left-hand side as in a LHD DeLorean and was linked to 
the brake pedal by a horizontal bar. I should imaging that this bar 
must be approximately 2-2.5 foot long to join the master cylinder to 
the brake pedal.

I questioned him about this as I thought that with a bar that long 
you are bound to get some twisting making the breaks a bit squidgy. 
This may well be the problem, I have been mulling it over in my 
walnut sized brain and was wondering if it might be worth changing 
the horizontal bar from a circular rod (which I think it currently 
is) to a square bar or something made from a stronger material which 
is less likely to twist.

If anything this information my cause others to come up with some 
ideas.

Is it a round steel bar? I can't remember.

hope this helps

James RG

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> My brakes don't seem very efficient and have been getting slowly 
worse. I
> need to push the pedal very hard to get them to work. The calipers 
and pads
> are all ok. I suspect the servo. Are the pipes prone to collapse? 
or are
> there other common problems which could give these symptoms.
> 
> Tony Lawther
> Southampton