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brake valve

Hello everyone
l own a 83 bedford mk2 autosleeper. been playing about with it (no name)last six months its nice its coming together slowly.In my wisdom l thought as l was going to carry my motorcycle on the back l would uprate my suspension so as l had a couple of air bags lying about l would bung them on Great lovely Drive but my brakes complete crap they stop but crap. Took a while to click in Yes The load conscious pressure ruducing valve. Question Can l live without it can l bypass it l see the mk 1 Bedford's don't have one? the brakes where ok befor the body was lifted
Noch.

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Thu 10 Dec 2015 @ 12:22 Edit this messageQuote this messagePMQuote this message
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Brake compensator vale

Hi enoch,

The valve is there to reduce the fluid pressure to the rear brakes under hard braking and so preventing the rear brakes from locking up, but under heavy load
It will allow more pressure of fluid to pass to the rear brakes to give you even braking.
Hence the name compensator and if you have raised the suspension it will react as in hard braking and cut back the flow of brake fluid to the rear brakes, depending on which type of compensator is fitted some are adjustable and some are not.
If you remove it you will find that the MOT man might fail your test if he knows that one should be fitted to that model of Bedford CF, and without it you may find it to have an adverse effect on the handling of the campervan on wet or grease like road surfaces.

doujoy

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Thanks Mr Joyce
I thought they worked on the loading capacity the heavier the load the more it gave all round but now looking at it hard braking and leaning on its nose Yes l can see it .A big if its not raining tomorrow l will go underneath with a wire brush and see if it adjusts.
again many thanks. Noch

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Hi every one
took the old valve off cleaned every thing change a few front cylinders
replaced bleed the system with a one man bleeding system useing the spare wheel .started at the nearside rear worked round now the brakes are complete
crap ? is there a proper way to do it.
confused.com Enoch
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Bleeding brakes.

Hi enoch,

Has your Bedford got a tandem system or a single system master cylinder?

doujoy

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brake valve

Hi
Sorry for delay l work a afternoon shift
Not sure what you mean tandem ? its got the two pipe's coming out of the side
for dual braking but only one container on top
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Braking.

Hi enoch,

Yes that is a tandem system you have try bleeding the system near-side rear, off-side front, off-side rear, near-side front, that's want worked on mine and I have the same system.

doujoy

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brake bleeding

Thanks for that
Today looks promising so will try it later on
enoch
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brake bleeding

Hi Mr Joyce
got the brakes back not 100% but enough to use on the road.l think a new
set of shoes should do the trick plus l found a bad brake pipe so something to do in the new year .
Thanks again Enoch
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Goods to hear.

Hi enoch,

Good that things are working out, check your rubber flexi-brake hoses with brake pressed hard on and held there might be a weakness in one and it will bulge a bit under heavy pressure.

doujoy

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brakes

Hi Enoch,don't forget to adjust the brakes as they are not automatic adjusters.Cheers+Beers Jim.

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