Brakes grabbing hard easily.
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Brakes grabbing hard easily.
When Im at low speed, idle even my brakes grab really hard when I just barely touch the pedal. At speed they've been fine... but I havn't gotten the car up to speed lately as I've been just working on it... they were a bit grabby before but seem to be getting worse and worse quickly. I should mention that I've also only had it running for a couple minutes at a time and its always been at high idle. Are some of my lines collapsing or whats up? Oh also the car stops straight, no pulling. just hard/sensivitve brakes at idle basically and it's the fronts only. I have rear drums.
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Re: Brakes grabbing hard easily.
Originally posted by RegaPlanet
When Im at low speed, idle even my brakes grab really hard when I just barely touch the pedal. At speed they've been fine... but I havn't gotten the car up to speed lately as I've been just working on it... they were a bit grabby before but seem to be getting worse and worse quickly. I should mention that I've also only had it running for a couple minutes at a time and its always been at high idle. Are some of my lines collapsing or whats up? Oh also the car stops straight, no pulling. just hard/sensivitve brakes at idle basically and it's the fronts only. I have rear drums.
When Im at low speed, idle even my brakes grab really hard when I just barely touch the pedal. At speed they've been fine... but I havn't gotten the car up to speed lately as I've been just working on it... they were a bit grabby before but seem to be getting worse and worse quickly. I should mention that I've also only had it running for a couple minutes at a time and its always been at high idle. Are some of my lines collapsing or whats up? Oh also the car stops straight, no pulling. just hard/sensivitve brakes at idle basically and it's the fronts only. I have rear drums.
Answer- You rear brakes are not working because the proportioning valves for these drum cars are crap- do this mod and they will feel much better-
https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=127100
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Car: 1991 Camaro RS
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so all I need do is take out the stock proportioning valve plug and stick in an allen head plug 5/8"-18 x 1/2"long? I'm not that familiar with where this plug is however I'll get the help of a friend who knows to try it.
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