Re: Brake servo utter, utter despair....
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:37 pm
Hi All,
It's getting worse. I pulled apart the servo, put it all back together again, bled the brakes and started the car up.
No brake fluid is being lost by the master cylinder like before.
However....
I am wondering what is going on with this engine. This time last year it was running superbly. Brand new 85 A alternator, new distributor, Magnecor leads and hall effect ignition.
Then, I had a pressurised water system. So the head was pulled and I had it skimmed. In order to compensate for Valve timing I saved up and bought Vernier cam sprockets. Now the valve timing is spot on.
As mentioned before I noticed a leak from the servo, hence the rebuild.
Whilst waiting for the servo parts to arrive, I started the car up to time the ignition: - all was well. The car sounded better than it had before.
So replacing the servo resulted in huge clouds of white smoke and disappearing brake fluid.
Now that I have rebuilt the servo again, I did expect a little white smoke from any residual brake fluid in the vacuum pipe.
Now I still get clouds of white smoke, but only when the car has warmed up. Also the exhaust is spitting out "black spots" that look like engine oil.
The head newly rebuilt, without the servo seemed ok. Now with it on I get smoke.
the bottom end was rebuilt by Miles Wilkins about 5000 miles ago, using new QED pistons.
damaged piston ring (s)? What on earth is going on? I have run out of money for yet another rebuild, so I'm hoping this is something simple.
Kind regards
Jeff 72+2
It's getting worse. I pulled apart the servo, put it all back together again, bled the brakes and started the car up.
No brake fluid is being lost by the master cylinder like before.
However....
I am wondering what is going on with this engine. This time last year it was running superbly. Brand new 85 A alternator, new distributor, Magnecor leads and hall effect ignition.
Then, I had a pressurised water system. So the head was pulled and I had it skimmed. In order to compensate for Valve timing I saved up and bought Vernier cam sprockets. Now the valve timing is spot on.
As mentioned before I noticed a leak from the servo, hence the rebuild.
Whilst waiting for the servo parts to arrive, I started the car up to time the ignition: - all was well. The car sounded better than it had before.
So replacing the servo resulted in huge clouds of white smoke and disappearing brake fluid.
Now that I have rebuilt the servo again, I did expect a little white smoke from any residual brake fluid in the vacuum pipe.
Now I still get clouds of white smoke, but only when the car has warmed up. Also the exhaust is spitting out "black spots" that look like engine oil.
The head newly rebuilt, without the servo seemed ok. Now with it on I get smoke.
the bottom end was rebuilt by Miles Wilkins about 5000 miles ago, using new QED pistons.
damaged piston ring (s)? What on earth is going on? I have run out of money for yet another rebuild, so I'm hoping this is something simple.
Kind regards
Jeff 72+2