1. Put the engine in a lower gear and leave the clutch slowly. Vehicle will stop with a jerk.
2. Use parking brakes
Pumping brakes can help restore pressure to the brake calipers temporarily. But this method wont work if the vehicle is equipped with ABS, or anti-lock brakes. Usually, down shifting will help slow the vehicle down, but not stop completely.
ABS brakes are good to stop the vehicle. What gives stability to the car are the shock absorbers, and the suspension set.
The three or four second rule (depends on where you are) is in place to allow you to see around the car in front. And to give you reaction time to bring your car to a stop if the car brakes or stops suddenly.
You can take your vehicle to Les Swab and they sometimes will give you a free brake inspection before doing any actual work to your brakes and charging you.
Master Cylinder seals are defective. Replace the Master Cylinder ASAP. Stop driving the vehicle until you have this repaired. The brakes can fail completely at any moment.
You can find several useful videos on youtube.com about changing brakes. Several of the videos will give you step by step instructions. This website also offers a variety of other vehicle maintenance videos.
If the vehicle is stopped without using the clutch , the engine will give jerks and turn off if the vehicle is in higher gear and the speed is not according to the range of the gear. Although, if the vehicle is being driven in higher gears and slight brakes are applied, no effect will be there if the vehicle's speed remains in the corresponding range. Example: if you are driving a vehicle at 90km/h in 5th gear and you bring it down to 60km/h by applying brakes without using the clutch, nothing will happen and you can continue driving by accelerating again.
Give us more details starting with the year, make and model. Need to know what exactly was "done" to the front and rear brakes. Need to know if only one, two, three or all four wheels grab.
If you are moving and need to stop suddenly then turn off the engine and shift down through the gears and use the handbrake. It worked for me. If you do not have to stop suddenly take your foot off the accelerator and slowly decrease speed and go down through the gear box, use the handbrake slowly when your speed had slowed down enough.
Give Blood - Brakes album - was created on 30-01-22.
your brakes are about to give out... you should go to wal-mart and have them replace them
There is a member in the C4 section on Smokinvette.com that can give you all the steps that you will need to get that job done in the shortest amount of time. Good luck!