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need brake guru advice

04-06-2006, 10:31 PM

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need brake guru advice

well i thought i would be a good son and fix the brakes on dads 92. had lots of pedal travel and lots of shudder. so i put new rotors on the front, one new caliper, new pads, the rears were way out of adjustment and needing shoes, put new shoes on. i then flushed the lines with new fluid and bled about a quart through everything. got in, put foot on the brake(had good hard pedal) and when i started it up the pedal slowly and smoothly went to the floor. I bled some more, still the same. found on here a post about bleeding the rwal valve so i did that. no better. saw that it was wet around the master cylinder. so i replaced it last night with a new bendix 11775. then bled everything again. STILL THE SAME THING!!! you can pump and push all you want with the engine off and have a great feeling brake pedal. as soon as you start the engine , you can push the pedal to the floor.
what am i missing here.
sorry for the novel, had to vent somewhere.
Thanks
Eric

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