Alan Camhi wrote.....
Had a mushy pedal that went to the florr and barely stopped the car. Bled
brakes with speed bleeder nipples to no avail.
I'm lost. The only thing I'm thinking it could be is air in the system.
I'm not losing any fluid anywhere. I feel like I'm very close just not
there yet.
There's a sure fire way to isolate brake problems, provided you don't have
stainless braided hoses......
Clamp off all the hoses, using either proper hose clamps, or Vise-grips of
G-Clamps with cardboard in the jaws to protecet the hoses.
Then, jump on the pedal. If it's rock hard, there's air in one of the
calipers/slave cylinders. If the pedal's soft, either the master's poorly of
there's air in the lines.
With a hard pedal, you can establish where the air is by taking off the
clamps one by one. Try the pedal each time and, when you feel a difference,
that's where your air is hiding.
Best of Luck:-)
Dave Hill
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