YEah I couldn't really find anything in the archived content that really described what happend..

'95 EX disc front drum rear no ABS

my brakes are hard, pretty hard actually

doign about 70 deer ran accross the road, jammed on my brakes, all the wheels locked up and I stopped..

Started going again after they cleared everything felt fine, about 2 min later I was pulling into the sub roads that go to my house and the brakes felt soft as hell, I thought I blew a brake line or something...got back to my house all like "wtf" - put it in reverse, went back out, went up the road, brake pedal was rock hard again and it stayed that way..

I know everybody's going to be like "bleed the brakes" as that's the answer to anything with the word "brake" in it on HT, but I was j/w if somebody knows what exactly happend...I've never had this happen to me, all my cars had ABS, so I'm not sure, any help is thx

Like I said, it's fine now, I'm just trying to figure out wth happend...

 

you just blew the seal in the M/C it will get worse and worse. one day it might be good, the next it wont. its called "bypassing", when it starts to annoy you just replace it.

 

wouldn't it leak brake fluid if I blew the seal on it?

 

no, not always, but yes eventually. the seal is on the actual piston inside the M/C, when its bad the piston moves through the bore but lets some of the pressure past the seal, so eventually you will see a leak (if you pull the m/c away from the booster) but normally you wont see the leak, alot of times it will leak into the booster and eventually ruin the booster as well.

 

I Have to take the master cyl off to check it? What exactly am I looking for... I mean if the leak's small and it's dripping one drip here and there I'm not raelly going to notice it dripping...

 

*bump

 

you wont see a drip. if you unbolt the m/c 2 bolts holding it to the booster, look at the back of the m/c if its wet or damp its leaking.

 

soft then hard then soft too soon? Been searching for an answer?

I need to start fowarding you my emails in my junk email folder.

 

*sigh*

Thx for the real help schardbody, I'll have to check this out :-\