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Offline Bluemonster71RT

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brake bleeding issue
« on: May 08, 2016 - 07:08:15 PM »
I had to change my rear calipers after fear of piston damage when the 2 of the bolts came out. After putting the 2 new calipers on I cannot get a stiff pedal like I had before. I bled them twice by mighty vac and once by 2 person method. Every time, I was able to acheive no air bubbles. But the pedal still goes to the floor at first then is just way too mushy. What can I be missing? Everything was great prior to the swap. Could these new calipers be junk? Everything has less than 1000 miles on it. 4 wheel manual disc

On a side note SSBC may have a good kit but customer service SUCKS. Clearly did not want to help with parts and what little info that was given on the parts to me was wrong.     
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Re: brake bleeding issue
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2016 - 07:36:08 PM »
        If your master cylinder went dry during the swap you may need to bench bleed it.   :2cents:           :rebel:

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Re: brake bleeding issue
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2016 - 07:48:37 PM »
        If your master cylinder went dry during the swap you may need to bench bleed it.   :2cents:           :rebel:

It did not. Is there any other way air could get to the master and cause an issue with just swapping calipers?  I'm not leaking anywhere so I assume that it has to be air.
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Re: brake bleeding issue
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2016 - 11:12:21 PM »
was there any visable damage to the first set of calipers  ?  Generally I would say the part you changed has to be the problem  , no leakage where the lines attach to the new calipers , do you still ave the calipers you removed ? you could re-install them

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Re: brake bleeding issue
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2016 - 12:51:10 PM »
was there any visable damage to the first set of calipers  ?  Generally I would say the part you changed has to be the problem  , no leakage where the lines attach to the new calipers , do you still ave the calipers you removed ? you could re-install them
Right, so what I did was pulled the right rear caliper off and was going to try the "turn it upside down" bleed tactic. When I put the piston compressor to use the piston would not go back in. So in short I took the good parts out of the left rear and rebuilt my damaged right rear. Re-installed them and blam-o we are good to go. Something was drastically wrong with the "new" one. Man that just drove me nuts.   
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Re: brake bleeding issue
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2016 - 04:33:12 PM »
generally when a parts is changed & a problem shows up it is the part that was changed ,not always though , glad you found the issue  :2thumbs:

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