Re: [alfa] Second call for help: Juddering Spider

["John Gallagher" <gallagher41@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug:
The spider emergency brake works on a small drum with shoes.  Your current
symptoms may be unrelated to leaving the hand brake on slightly.

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From: "Douglas R. and Julia R. Harris" <dharris@domain.elided>
To: "Alfa Digest" <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:38 PM
Subject: [alfa] Second call for help: Juddering Spider


> Can someone help? . . . Anyone?  Please.
>
> My post from last Friday:
>
>     Last weekend I had my Spider out.  A neighbor sat in it and checked
> it out.  He pulled the emergency brake up a few inches too keep from
> rolling while he stirred the 'box.  I didn't really make a note of it.
> My dash brake light doesn't work, so when I later took it for a 50-mile
> jaunt, I failed to notice that the brake was partially applied.  It felt
> no different when I drove it.  I smacked myself on the forehead -- V8
> style -- when I noticed the brake handle up . . . just as I got home.
>     Today, when I drove it, I noticed a disturbing juddering feeling
> when I applied the brakes lightly at a low speed -- kinda like driving
> over two or three sets of railroad tracks.  Most troubling is that the
> feeling remains a few seconds even after I take my foot off the pedal.
>     Did I bake my rotors?  Cook my pads?  Glaze my doughnuts?  Yes, I am
> feeling pretty dumb.
>
> Doug
> Richmond, Virginia  (We survived Isabel!)
> 77 Spider (named Isabella . . . really)
>
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