Turtle n Peeps wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
Turtle n Peeps wrote:
It makes no sense that you lost all braking capability. :h
As pointed out above, all brake systems that have been made since around the 70's have a split system. How modern brakes work.
Duel reservoir in the master cylinder, duel or shuttle piston, duel lines front and rear. Everything is redundant. It's built that way just for the reason you encountered.
You should have had some brakes, either complete front or complete rear.
In theory that is how it is supposed to work. But unfortunately in the real world it doesn't! I can tell you from being a mechanic and fixing rusted/broken brake lines that when only one circuit of the system leaks the pedal will go to the floor.
LOL, why wouldn't it work? It's entirely TWO SEPERATE systems! Look at the simple schematic.
If you're a mechanic you should be able to tell me why the second entirely separate brake system won't work, not just say it doesn't work for some mysterious reason.
I've done this at the race track several times. The line gets cut or broken in a wreck or some other reason and I take a ball peen hammer and smash the line closed so it won't leak out on the track. The other system works fine and we can finish the race on either the front or rear brakes only.
If you pedal went to the floor with one broken line your second system (front or back) was not working in the first place.
There it is!! You beat me to it.
