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Brakes are mushy after bleeding 200 1980

posted by  zrubin on  Fri Jun 14 03:40 CST 2002
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I just replaced my rear calipers, rotors, and metal lines, and installed new front pads, and then bled the entire system with a pressure bleeder. After all that, the brakes are terribly soft - I thought I was pretty careful during the bleeding process. I pumped the pedal around 50 times with the car running to get the pistons up to the pads, but the pedal is still soft. Last time I did the front pads, it only took around 5-10 times to get back to a firm pedal. Any ideas? Could I have somehow ruined the master cylinder? At least the brakes work now...

Zack
'80 245DL 253k






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