bled brakes, still no pressure??
10-15-2006, 01:49 PM
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bled brakes, still no pressure?? this weekend we took the calipers off to paint them on my friends 98 z28. we put them back on and then we started to bleed the brakes, we started at the master cyl and bled that, then worked from the RR, LR, RF, LF until we were finished, we started the car up, and the pedal went straight to the floor, it wouldnt even stop the car at idle. is it supposed to do that? do we have to drive it around the block pumping the brakes to get the pressure built back up?
10-15-2006, 02:06 PM
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Not right. Check for leaks and bleed them again. Not sure how you are doing it. You might try putting some fluid in a jar and running a rubber hose from the bleeder (must fit tight) into some fluid in the bottom of the jar. That way you won't suck any air back in.
10-15-2006, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by @nthony
did you pump the pedal 4 times then hold it to the floor when someone opened the bleeder valve? then they tighten it and you push the pedal back up.
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10-15-2006, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by WheelsUp84z
to bleed the master cyl, all you have to do is crack open the lines that go to the ABS unit and bleed them like a regular brake, then move on and do the rest of the brakes
On 97 and older F-Cars, the ABS module was a bleed point (in a dry system) and it even had a bleed screw.
But the 98 and newer version wasn't serviceable except through a Tech 2.
I think you have air in the ABS module ...
