Okay, here's the deal. I had my brakes worked on about two month ago. I asked them to flush and refill the system, but instead, they adjusted the rear brakes. I'm not sure exactly what they did, but the brakes were much tighter. I could only pull the e-brake up about two or three clicks, and the e-brake light on the cluster was on most of the time while driving.
About a month later, I was on the binders pretty hard and the pedal went to the boards. I could still use the e-brake, but the hydraulics were out. I think I blew a rear wheel cylinder judging by the fluid coming out of the rear drum.
My question is, would the work or adjustment done on the brakes have anything to do with the failure? Just wondering if I should take it back to the shop and tell them to fix their fuckup, or just suck it up and fix it myself.


Modified by hafftrak at 5:42 PM 5/23/2007

 

did they replace the wheel cylinders? if so you have a bad one.But also check to see if the hard line didnt break, there is a hard line coming from the wheel cylinder going to the rubber soft line. I had both of mine break at different times they just rusted through, when I pressed real hard once the line blew open through the rust and no brakes, check it out first.

 

you know your e-brake light comes on when your brake fluid is low (or at least mine does) dont you? maybe the shop just messed somethin up and you let all the fluid leak out.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Crx Jimmy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">did they replace the wheel cylinders? if so you have a bad one.But also check to see if the hard line didnt break, there is a hard line coming from the wheel cylinder going to the rubber soft line. I had both of mine break at different times they just rusted through, when I pressed real hard once the line blew open through the rust and no brakes, check it out first.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks, good to know. I think I will check all the hard lines for corrosion, figuring the car has spent its whole life in MN.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BILLETGRIP &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you know your e-brake light comes on when your brake fluid is low (or at least mine does) dont you? maybe the shop just messed somethin up and you let all the fluid leak out.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I did not know this. I will check that as well.