Brakes are not very good on my sporty?

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On my Sporty i found the pedal travels a long way before doing anything. I have bleed the system time and time again, and when the engines off the pedal is rock hard, but when the engines running its soft again, The servo is working fine.
I test drove another one before i brought this one, and the pedal response was horrible again? is this common? the padal seems to go half way?

sporty brakes

hi bud, i have a sportrak just now , ive had it for 5 years, amd its just like yours, crap brakes, if you adjust the rear brakes up manually it helps a wee bit, cheers, i think they are all the same

They are lousy, you can't den

They are lousy, you can't deny that. I also took them up on the manual adjuster, and will have a go at bypassing that compensator next time it goes soft.

Dave with a Sporty

Dave with a Sporty

That's judt Daihatsu breaks f

That's judt Daihatsu breaks for you. Seem to do nothing, and then you've stoped. There is a way to get rock hard breakes, if you want them. About half way between the engine bay, and the rear flexible brake pipe to the rear axle is break balancing valve. This basicly puts less percentage of the presure your creating on the foot peddlel to the back wheels the harder you break. In other words the harder you break the more of the breaking goes to the front wheels.
This is ment to prevent the rear wheels locking up under seviar breaking.
If you bypass this valve the breakes become rock hard, and very responsive. This also makes breaking with a trailer much better, when you need more rear wheel breaking. However you loss the progresivness of the Daihatsu's normal breakes, and run the risk of losing the back end during emergency breaking situations.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.

sequence.

Did you bleed the system in the correct sequence? If you dont start from longest 'run' and do 'shortest' last, you will get a spongy pedal.

You may want to look at this

You may want to look at this page. New theory to me. http://www.daihatsu-drivers.co.uk/node/2500
Ah. Bugger. Just realised this is you. Doh. Sorry.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.