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Sittting all summer, zero left hand turn

BoyToys

BoyToys

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So I fired her up the other day and drove about 30 feet, but she would not turn left. Tried a couple times, then adjusted the left slave cylinder linkage just one turn to take up a little slack. That did the trick but I'm questioning if adjustment was even necessary. Maybe it needed just a little more cruising to get the OC diff oil circulating around the brake pad on that side in order for it to grab properly. No issues with turning all last winter.

Thoughts? I will most likely back off the adjustment to where it was and I suspect it will turn fine, perhaps anyway. No logical reason why I would have had to adjust it in the first place.
 
BoyToys said:
I did....full.
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Did you check it AFTER you found the problem or BEFORE? If checked before running, check it again. It is possible you had a bunch of air in one line. If it was substantial then your overall level would be lower after running it as the bubble cleared itself into the reservoir tank. Look for signs of a minor leak that could have drained during the summer.
 
Melensdad said:
Did you check it AFTER you found the problem or BEFORE? If checked before running, check it again. It is possible you had a bunch of air in one line. If it was substantial then your overall level would be lower after running it as the bubble cleared itself into the reservoir tank. Look for signs of a minor leak that could have drained during the summer.
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Certainly could have been an air bubble or low fluid, which was my first thought. I checked it after my short run. Pretty much full to the top. No visible leaks at the master or slave cylinders but I didn't spend a lot of time looking since the reservoir was full.
I just wonder if the brake shoe hadn't dried out a bit, or had some water condensation on it. These things are supposed to be wet with oil, but yet the right side was fine.
I'll be heading back up a week from now and will test her out once again.
 
That behavior sounds weird. I’ve left my cat sit many summers without moving it and that has never happened. Oil tends to cling so I don’t see the bands drying. Bubble in brake line possible but you should have felt or seen it in the stick motion.

If an adjustment fixed it maybe the adjustment was needed or something might be binding the slave piston at the end of its travel. Just a thought
 
zspryte said:
That behavior sounds weird. I’ve left my cat sit many summers without moving it and that has never happened. Oil tends to cling so I don’t see the bands drying. Bubble in brake line possible but you should have felt or seen it in the stick motion.

If an adjustment fixed it maybe the adjustment was needed or something might be binding the slave piston at the end of its travel. Just a thought
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Yeah, way weird. I was just theorizing about a dry brake pad which makes no logical sense.
Thinking back on it, I think I may have had more travel on the steering brake handle than usual, which would point to air in the lines. Perhaps I just needed to give it a few more pumps to bleed the bubble and instead went back to the slave cylinder and tightened just a touch...then all was fine. Turned fine all last winter.

Heading up tomorrow and we'll see if all is well and look closely for any fluid leaks (reservoir was full).Don't want to get into any major mechanical hydraulic rebuild crap this close to the white stuff arriving.
 
redsqwrl said:
Leave it questionable.... It will snow like mad. If you fix it, you will get rain.
Live on the edge
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Sage advice Kemosabe. My 72 year old life has always been on the edge but at the same time I'm anal enough to lay awake nights when things aren't just as they should be.
Would hate to lose one side of steering out in the snow away from home base. Go forward...back up...go forward, rinse and repeat to get home.
That's what's called adventure.
 
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