well last night we successfully installed a 5lugger on my friend 00 si and we keep bleeding the brakes right ...we would get the brake pedal really, then pump the brakes when it was done...but as soon as we turned on th ecar the pedal sinked down to th floor?.....

what do you guys think? has anyone ever had similar problems?

 

how did you bleed them..?? i take it you do know how.. right??

 

yea, we did the old style way...1 person pump and the other one at the tip....we've done it several times but this time it doesn't work...could his master cylinder be shot.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SilverDc2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yea, we did the old style way...1 person pump and the other one at the tip....we've done it several times but this time it doesn't work...could his master cylinder be shot.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Could be. I forget what it is, but there is some common way people mess up the MC when replacing the brake stuff....

 

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Could be. I forget what it is, but there is some common way people mess up the MC when replacing the brake stuff....</TD></TR></TABLE>

During the swap the MC might have run dry, drained. It might now have lots of air in it... not sure how to specifically check that. I believe a bench bleed is done to systems that were drained/new.

When you guys were doing the bleeding? You didn't let the peddle go all the way to the floor right?

 

well one go get a air bleeder and go from the wheel farthest from the master cylinder and so on otherwise you will never get it working

 

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During the swap the MC might have run dry, drained. It might now have lots of air in it... not sure how to specifically check that. I believe a bench bleed is done to systems that were drained/new.

When you guys were doing the bleeding? You didn't let the peddle go all the way to the floor right?</TD></TR></TABLE>

as far as the peddle i didn't i dont know if my friend thoughl..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by scratchy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> go from the wheel farthest from the master cylinder and so on otherwise you will never get it working</TD></TR></TABLE>

A debated concept. Older helms manuals say to bleed RR, LF, LR, RF. Newer ones are LF, LR, RL, RR.

 

i bled it in just random order every time i do it and it turns out fine