line lock on 73 duster ?
The couple of times I engaged my line lock (solinoid in the front brake line) before applying the brakes,that pedal became so solid I doubt I could have had any braking at all.
I hate to say yer doin it wrong, but....
First you step on the brake, hard.
Then you engage the button (which is usually "M-O", or momentary-on) to energize the solenoid, and keep the button engaged. This locks the brakefluid in the line and thus the front brakes stay locked on.
Then you take your foot off the brake, still keeping the button "on". This releases the rear brakes.
This keeps the car from rolling at the start-line,with a stick-shift car.
Or allows massive burn-outs without burning up the rear shoes.heehee
This is PART II of diymirage's post above(#3)
If you apply the line-loc button first,then you are preventing brake-fluid from going out to the front system.So if you then step on the pedal, the fluid cannot move, and the pedal feels rock hard. That would be normal.And since the piston in the M/C cannot move, you would not have any brakes at all. Also normal.
If you have an M/T, the line-loc is an excellent hill-holder, making redlights at the tops of hills, no longer delicate,dangerous, balancing acts.I wired my LL to a second,dash-mounted, on-off switch.This allows me to set the front brakes for any period necessary, so I don't have to sit there with my finger on the switch, hoping it won't slip off or the finger go numb, or to suffer my pedal-jamming-leg to start shaking.
