How old are the flex lines? The old ones have a
nasty habit of swelling internally thus the slow
trickle of fluid that you mentioned. The brakes will
still work but when the pedal is released the fluid in
the calipher is still under some residual pressure
allowing the pads to still contact the rotor thus
wearing them quite rapidly. To check if this is the
problem elevate the front wheels then after pressing
hard on the brake pedal and releasing see how hard it
is to turn the wheel. If any resistence is felt open
the bleed screw to see if any fluid spurts out. If
after releasing the pressure the wheel turns freely
then you have found the problem. I had this happen
once to point that the front wheels almost completely
locked up. Hope this helps, Bob
--- s1500@comcast.net wrote:
> Bleeding & flushing the front brakes were no fun at
> all. I thought I would later get some solid fluid
> coming out of the bleeder valve, I stop and it will
> be done. With the front 2 brakes, it never happened.
> Fluid just slowly trickled out, even after the
> procedural topping up & pushing the pedals. Out went
> the GT LMA and in went new GT LMA.
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