Side Draft Owners Beware

[kangaroosa]

This is a heads up for anyone running side draft carbs on a K engine.

 

Today my brakes started to feel rather spongey and not normal at all after leaving a building site. After a few sets of lights and about five pumps of the pedal to get some pressure everytime i wanted to stop, a huge plume of smoke drifted past my car as I came to a stop each time. I knew something bad was wrong, so I limped back to work and parked my car.

I returned a few hours later to find a huge pool of brake fluid under my car. My K&N air filter had rubbed a hole through the metal brake line that runs from the block on the firewall, to the LHS front calliper. Hence my spongey brakes and smoke from brake fluid on my extractors.

 

I tried to drive the car to see if i could limp home with minimal brakes and the use of the handbrake, and also topping up the fluid level. No Chance! The pedal went straight to the floor. So i decided to cut the line and kink it over, isolating the problem and hoping to drive home with 3 brakes. After many failed attempts to kink and seal the line, i went to a mechanic two doors down and picked his brains

 

Fortunately he had a rogue bleeding bolt from a brake calliper that he gave to me. I simply screwed that into the diverter block on the firewall, therefor isolating the LHS brake line.

I picked up a brake line and some fluid on the way home and changed it.

 

So I guess this is just a heads up for all those out there to check they don't have the same problem as me.

My car has a lopey cam and the engine shakes a fair bit. So the airfilters are that much closer to the brake line when the engine is cold and shakey.

 

If you get stuck like me, you may be able to undo the bleeder bolt from your calliper and plug the diverter block on your firewall with that.

[Wood§tok]

glad to hear you sorted it out without incident. nothing worse than when you start driving and then the breaks start to feel funny.

 

cheers.

[shelldrake]

Interesting...Never heard of that happening before...Trumpets and socks FTW! :yes: