brake bleeding following brake replacement


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May 17, 2009, 2:43 PM

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I have a 96 plymouth voyager 3.3ltr with approx 127000 miles on it. my boyfriend replaced the front brakes yesterday with no problem and we bled the brakes. When turning on the car and test driving it the pedal was soft and went right to the floor. we did not bleed the back brakes as they are drum brakes (he could not find the bleeder screw) and now I have no brakes and no money or way to take it to a garage and am at a complete loss as to what to do. Please help us!

Tom Greenleaf
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May 18, 2009, 4:11 AM

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Re: brake bleeding following brake replacement	Sign In

If front brake caliper pistons were just pushed back such that fluid just returned to master cylinder then it may have pushed back icky fluid. There are way to do that without that trick.

More: There are bleeding procedures if with ABS. May be bleeder along the way too to do in order.

More II: Once new pads are installed brakes may not feel their best for a period of time but work safely. Once pistons are retracted in calipers to make room for the new the first several attemps to bleed brakes may (near always) allows braked pedal to go to floor and can tear up seals in master cylinder as the internals of that haven't been there in a while so it could be the issue too. Needs some hand on diagsosing IMO!

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May 18, 2009, 5:04 AM

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It's also possible that when bleeding the front, he allowed the master cylinder reservoir to go empty at some point and now has drawn air into the whole system.

It sounds like he never should have bled it at all but at this point needs more bleeding in the front.

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