Some early road tests reported on the cars having quite long travel and the travel on mine is certainly longer then my 159 Alfa. During its life with me its had new disc and pads , hoses and the fluid changed every 2 years and has always been the same. To give you a reference l measured the travel from the middle left had side of the pedal to the floor and with the brake off it was 190 mm withe the brake applied it was 150 mm hope this reverence may help as you could be chasing a problem that is not.
Rex B
Manual 3200
Thanks for measuring Rex it’s a great help. I get 190mm off and 110mm applied.
Dave mine is an early car chassis No just over 1,000 so an early and made in 1999 and mine only has 40mm travel pedal pushed by had probably 50 with my foot..
80mm of travel is quite a lot, did Autoshield think this was normal when they changed the fluid.?
I had a problem on my Mini years ago worse than yours and we bled the system for days and in the end we changed the master cylinder and we then has a great pedal., but not easy on a 3200.
You could try putting a clamp of each flexible individually to see if any one caliper or hose causing the problem., or try changing the flexible hoses for small bore ones, and also check the run out of the discs, can't think of much else you can do.
Regards
Rex B
Rex, I wonder if the part numbers for the master cylinder changed over the life of the 3200's
might give a clue!
Dave
Autoshield didn’t say they thought there was an issue. Around town it’s just a bit long it’s only at speed when it gets a bit sketchy
I’ve got some Goodridge hoses coming even if they aren’t an issue I thought it was worthwhile changing them.
As you say could be the discs. Didn’t get round the checking the run out, it doesn’t seem to get longer after an application when stationary compared with on the move.
The parts catalogue only lists one master cylinder.
It also only lists one pedal and mount so if they did change the travel not sure how they did it.
Bore Diameter!
Dave
And that TT was around 250 kilo's lighter than a 3200!
Dave
If they’d changed the bore you’d have thought it would list two master cylinders with different part numbers but it doesn’t.
Like lots of stuff for 3200's maybe the original spec parts don't exist an longer
Dave
If you could change the master cylinder easily it would help but according to the manual you have to remove the engine so probably the last thing you want to do, so everything else has to be considered first.
Rex B