I just bought a 400$ eg coupe primarily for the shell to swap my h22 in, but it has a problem.
The brake pedal goes damn near all the way to the floor everytime when i brake. At 1inch from the floor is when i finally feel the brakes working, poorly, but working. I havnt inspected anything yet becuase i just bought the thing. The pedal isnt spongy when i press it (no air bubbles) unless it has soo many bubbles its that bad. The car has 180, i did a search, seems to be like master cyl's go out on a lot.
Obviously first thing would be to check for leaks, i know the resevior is full right now. After i check for leaks, im going to bleed the brakes and see what happens.
---anyone have any advice? i know this is a guessing game for the most part, but your input/knowledge always helps.
thanks to all that help me out!
-jimbo

 

done any hard braking recently? because it sounds like either you just need new fluid, or either your master or slave cylinder are shot

 

do u know how much it is to replace the master and slave cylinders, including labor, and how much without the labor? thanks

 

bleed

 

It might need pedal adjustment and bleeding

 

thanks for the replies, tomorow i will inspect the pig and see if i can find anything.

 

adjust your drum brakes. if you have drums.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr. Choi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">adjust your drum brakes. if you have drums.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yep!! this same thing happened when my drum brakes went out on me.

 

Man --- sounds like drums to me also-- to the floor you say--- hope it wont cost u money out of the ***.