Hey,

I am having a problem with my brakes.

I have a 1999 civic cx hatch 5 speed manual, when I bought it the person before did a rear disk conversion.
I was having problem with the old calipers,(the handbrake would not engage on one side)
So I purchased new ones today. Installed them and the handbrake works fine. But the petal is mushy and it does not stop the car well at all at 10km/h.
I bled them and it didn't feel good so I bled them again, still the same result.

Now I am pretty sure that it is air in the line due to the feel, but I am somewhat confused as I have never bled a car so much and had the petal remain soft. I have bled all four calipers at around 60 pumps each, ran a liter through, never did the reservoir suck in any air, I kept on top of that very closely.

Do you guys have any thoughts? Or should I just keep bleeding them?

 

 

Thanks, but still no success.

 

Try bench bleeding the MC.

 

Did you bleed all four calipers or just the two rear?





eH.

 

All four.

 

did you bleed the brakes in this process rr,lr,rf,lf? also when you bleed the brakes do you get a steady stream of fluid from the bleeder or a lil bits of fluid ?

 

you have a loose fitting if all you did is swap calipers and previously had good pedal feel.

 

Do you have the correct proportioning valve installed?