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The brakes are fixed..... 200 1985

posted by  DeWayne on  Thu Mar 14 06:08 CST 2002
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They installed a brand new master cylinder (the third one!) and vacuum bled the system again. The two rebuilt master cylinders I got from Carquest were crap but the rebuilt calipers were fine. We haven't picked up the car yet because they were unable to finish it yesterday. They gave us a loaner Volvo that has 268K on the clock. The engine doesn't have much power left but it's still going.

I knew that the second MC was bad and probably could have fixed it myself but I was frustrated and out of time at that point. I tried pressure bleeding, gravity bleeding, and manual bleeding of the brake lines following the proper bleeding sequence so I don't see how I might have missed anything or screwed up.
Either these Volvo system are extremly hard to bleed properly or I was just the victim of bad circumstances using rebuilt parts and limited experience doing brake work. I don't know what the final total bill is yet, but this has turned out to be a very expensive education that I hope to aviod in the future.


DeWayne






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