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Posted by blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
1987 5.0 booster
1995 GT Master cylinder
Matt90GT's 3-2 port conversion kit
Gutted stock prop valve, w/ FMS solid plug
SSBC adj. prop valve installed at the passenger coupler
1991 crown vic police 73mm steel piston front calipers
1988 turbocoupe rearend from a 5spd car (3.55's, vented discs)
stock foxbody rearend hardline, using adapters at the caliper flex lines
russel stainless braided brake lines up front, and from rear mainline to rearend hardline - rubber at the rear caliper flex lines (do they make a kit for those???)

the pedal goes to the floor after bleeding through 2 quarts + 4 small bottles (pints?) of dot3 brake fluid using a motive PRESSURE BLEEDER. I have the rear brake bias set to full increase (wide open) on my adj prop valve.

what am I missing here the fluid is coming out clear and clean with no air bubbles, I'm bleeding at 15psi and even jumped into the car and pumped the brake pedal while bleeding out each rear caliper. Initially a ton of air came out of the rears and a little out of the fronts, but now just clean clear fluid.

should I take the calipers off and move them around or something? Maybe air is getting stuck in them somewhere?

with the engine off I can pump the pedal and it will firm up and feel perfect, but start the engine and it just goes to the floor and pumping doesn't do anything.
 

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Posted by NO MANRZ (Member # 566) on :
 
Are you letting the brake fluid level get too low in the resevoir as you're bleeding?
 

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Posted by 88DroptopGT (Member # 2535) on :
 
Perhaps your brake Master Cylinder just took a dump.

You can make your own hardline out of SS line and flare/AN fittings, I just made my own a while ago.
 

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Posted by Hungry Hippo (Member # 537) on :
 
sounds like you need to bleed the master cylinder. crack open each line that connects to it like you are bleeding the brakes
 

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Posted by blind (Member # 3052) on :
 

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Originally posted by Hungry Hippo:
sounds like you need to bleed the master cylinder. crack open each line that connects to it like you are bleeding the brakes

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Originally posted by AJBlackGT:
Do you have teflon tape or paste on the threads of the bleeder valves? I always have problems when bleeding the brakes if the bleeder valves are not sealed because air gets back in past the threads. Try sealing the bleeder threads...

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thanks I'll try that when I pull the calipers all off tomorrow.

92stanglx, yes. RR, LR, RF, LF in that order, with my adj prop valve adjusted to full rear bias.
 

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Posted by blind (Member # 3052) on :
 
I had the front calipers mounted on the wrong side

brakes work great now, took about 5 minutes to bleed the brakes after swapping them, I love my pressure bleeder
 

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Posted by Camaro Kid Z/28 (Member # 3100) on :
 

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Originally posted by blind:
I had the front calipers mounted on the wrong side

brakes work great now, took about 5 minutes to bleed the brakes after swapping them, I love my pressure bleeder

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crackhead!
 

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Posted by JoeT (Member # 298) on :
 
I thought teflon tape on brake line threads was a BIIIIG no-no
 

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Posted by AJBlackGT (Member # 3936) on :
 

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Originally posted by JoeT:
I thought teflon tape on brake line threads was a BIIIIG no-no

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its only on the bleeder valves and its teflon paste
 

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