Betty msged me complaining about spongey brake pedal and since she recently had a kit through the master cylinder it could only really be one thing, leaky wheel cylinders. So she came over and we bleed the brakes, huge air bubbles
. Anyway all was ok, and I told her to do the regular Dr Mini thing, take her for a spin around the block to make sure everything is ok.
She only made it up the road when the she had to walk back to my place to tell me that there was no brake pedal at all. It turns out the C clip fell out of the brake pedal and the gudgeon pin dropped straight out of the pivots and the pedal was totally free!
Thank goodness she was only up my road, I'd hate to think what would have happened if this happened on the freeway!
Anyway, alot of swearing later, we fixed the brake and clutch to ensure this would not happen again. Things were fine up until today for her... the pin simply wore and became loose and suddenly without notice, pop, it came off.
My question to all of you lot is, when was the last time you checked under there???
It certainly made me look under Lillee's pedal box to make sure all was ok!
Those cotter pins are a real bugger to get the slit pin in. The trick is to get two long nose pliers. one to hold the Cootr pin and one for the Slit. And also take the drivers seat out and lay down. Much easier and 10 Minutes
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