Hi Pete, Seems like a self answering question, add a booster if that's what works on the other cars and is lacking on this one. When the power steering didn't work on my ex-wife's Volvo, it was similar. Very heavy effort needed to turn the steering wheel, but it turned. Fixing the PS pump put it back to normal. HTH Stevan Thomas In a message dated 1/9/2012 8:26:57 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Pete Lundquist <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Underfloor GTV Brake MC sizes (Outlaw calipers on a '69) Hi Graham, Not to confuse matters, but my 1969 GTV has a very stiff brake pedal. At rest, the pedal is on the cabin side of vertical. When I stand on the brakes the pedal gets to the vertical position. There is no fade, no spongy pedal, just really stiff brakes. I have some Outlaw calipers on the car (four piston in the front and larger two piston in the back) and a 22mm '67 MC. When I got the car back in 1985 I tore out the original brake system and basically converted the car back to a '67 MC without a booster. The brakes are absolutely sweet. I am running the same brake set up on my '72 Berlina and '88 Spider, but neither has the stiff pedal of the GTV. Of course, these cars have the firewall MC and a brake booster too. Cheers, -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
