Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by brandonl2000

Don't mean to jack your topic but out of curiosity, can a master cylinder be bad without leaking? I assume yes but I wasn't sure.

Yes the seal can leak internally and not build any pressure.

It would be correctly pressurized now if you don't have air in the system. The amount of pedal travel before engagement is an indication of how much fluid is required to push the pistions outward to hold the disc. Aka... pad wear.

A soft pedal or pedal that slowly drops to the floor is an indicator of a ballooning rubber line or bad metal line.

If you are going to replace your lines consider doing it yourself and not doing a crappy job. NiCopp and a few other newer lines out there do not rust and are much easier to work with than conventional replacement line. If you pull the various clips and reuse them, the lines can run nearly the same as the factory lines.

Originally Posted by jerZcavy4120

my concern is this.
if i bleed the system completely. replace anything that needs fixing.

and go drive the car with a correctly pressurized braking system.
i'd be putting more strain on the old lines. increasing my chances of popping a line. which what i'm trying to avoid.



so i'll go back to my original ?.


would it make more sense to buy new lines from a Stealership, or make my own?

meh. my lines look rusty too, and i got the f bodys on there. and ive nailed the brakes a number of times, still holding.

id rather have a good solid pedal under my foot. i'd change em, and if they blow out a line, then worry about it.

Haha ebay seller, refunded me my full amount because i yelleed and said one didnt work, oops im dumb and forgot to mention they worked after i turned that bulb around lol

Got a new tire, oil change and rotation in preparation for the ice drive in the morning.

Koni finally got my struts, one step closer to getting my coilovers finished. Also only a few more odds and ends to collect to have everything.

I forgot to put it up the other day, but I hit 152,000 miles.

Originally Posted by Bluemagic

Put two 10 kicker cvrs in and a 1200 watt kenwood amp in today. Cost me a whole 30 bucks. God I love craiglist. Funny thing though, I bought it from a deaf guy. These things must really hit hard lol.

Maybe thats why he's deaf

Delivered papers this morning, no ice, just cold. At least cold for Georgia.

Did an oil change. Slowly introducing full syntehtic into my car, but this castrol gtx part synthetic seems to have made a nice difference over the previous pennzoil i had, car feels healthier during accelaration. Also detailed it, all this in 52 degree florida weather.

nothing, its sitting in the parking lot at work while I'm away in Yuma, AZ for a few weeks.

I polished one of the tips on my GP. I'll get the other one done this afternoon. I polished this about a year and half ago. I never cleaned them like I should have.

Are those glass bricks in your house there? nonetheless, pretty cool lookin..

Originally Posted by brandonl2000

Are those glass bricks in your house there? nonetheless, pretty cool lookin..

Yeah, that is where the old milk box was and instead of having a rusted out piece of metal I put glass block in and on the inside it's a little storage cubby.


Here is my other tip all polished out.

just what in the hells a milk box?

At one point in time milk used to come around in trunks and was put in your milk box. There was two metal doors each side had a latch, and the milk was placed inside. It's something a lot of older homes in my area used to have. It's actually common to put glass block in place of the door.

My house even has an old coal chute that goes into the basement and a long time ago to heat the house you needed to shovel the coal into the furnace. It's since been updated since the house was built in the 1940s.