Day 4

I took the Midas round to visit a friend in my village today and on my way back home the brakes started to lock on. I managed to get it back to Steve at the local Mini Centre. He had it for a couple of hours and found that the grommet securing the flexible vacuum pipe to the servo was split and so he replaced it and adjusted the mixture as it was now running rich. He took the master cylinder off and checked the actuating rod from the servo to ensure that was adjusted properly and he found there was no adjustment on it as there should have been. He could find nothing else wrong and so I collected it back from him. Took it for a longer test drive, again only round my village and found again that the brakes locked on. I cracked the brake lines to reduce the pressure and took it home. Steve and I are now trying to track down a new master cylinder but as mine is a 3 output one, not the more normal 2 output one, it is proving impossible to find one.