With the price of hoses it is tempting to just replace them, particularly as I will put 'Motul 600' fluid in it at $30/ 500ml. Even a new master is only $70. The hoses are only a couple of years old though. Also the characteristic is that once hot the brakes went spongy, but then they don't come back again when cool, unless you rebleed it. Also no air is apparent when bleeding. If the heat was allowing the hoses to bulge, then I would expect them to come good again when cold.
Also, despite this spongy pedal, a quick jab on the brakes easily will lock the wheels. Also I didn't say in the last post, that despite the crap pedal, I was using exactly the same braking markers and pulling up just the same.
Also another tip Oscar that might help if you do any brake work. Being a manual, my clutch shares the same reservoir, with a pipe on the side of it. When power bleeding, it leaks slightly where the hose from the clutch master goes on (not surprisingly) Also the triangular reservoir shits me with these totally enclosed areas. By comparison with my W108, when I want to change brake fluid i put a hose on the end of a large syringe and suck off all the fluid in the reservoir, also does a sort of vacuum job on the bottom of the reservoir too. Then I refill and just need to bleed through the fluid in the lines. The only option with this one is to drain it, and therefore introduce air into the system and then bleed it back out again. Not a big deal though.
Anyway, I propose to see if a 108 reservoir will fit (looks like it will) and also to fit a seperated clutch reservoir off a 108. I happen to have a spare of one of these, didn't see any new ones on Autohaus. Not a lot of manual wrecks around either, but maybe something off another car would fit? I think there were more manual cars in europe, so maybe other places have the reservoirs.
And having written all this, it makes sense not to hide it away in this post on Mallala - will cut and paste into a brake post.
