10.0
really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 1 / 0
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 0 / 0
- Average Mileage:
- 0 miles
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Upon starting my motor home I applied the brakes and the pedal went clear to the floor with little or no resistance. The engine was running at the time. I tried several times to "pump up" the brakes with no change. The vehicle was towed to a repair station where the initial findings are a master cylinder failure. There is no evidence of an external leak, both brake fluid chambers are full. No repairs have been started as of this date 1/27/02. I called monaco/Safari/spartan (chassis) and spoke to a tech service representative who claimed that the problem could be caused by an internal failure of the master cylinder. Not believing that a failure(no external loss of fluid) could cause this condition I called bendix (now Bosch) engineering and spoke to mr ralph porter (sp). He indicated that their master cyl. Could not fail in this way unless there was a total breakdown of the internal seals in the cyl. Which was most unlikely.neither company indicated an interest in investigating this event. I have reviewed the fed. Motor vehicle safety std. 105 and have concluded that this event was in violation fo the standard.
- Sewall's Pt., FL, USA
- Renton, WA, USA