I just replaced front and rear brake pads and changed the brake fluid using a power bleeder. the problem is now the brake pedal travels to low before the brakes engage. It's a litle freaky. What's the deal?


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Rebled the rear and still happening. Starting to hate working on this car.

 

Sounds like you have air in the system. When you say bled, how much did you run through the system?

 

I changed all the fluid. From what I can tell there were no bubbles. How much should you run through?

 

Before a track weekend, I'll put through about 1/2+ can of ATE Blue.

 

I used almost a whole can

 

may have to manually bleed them, get a pumper person in the drivers seat, start at the furthest wheel and get closer-to the mc.

 

was thinking that. how much do they pump?

 

RE-bled all corners and no difference. Looks like there might be tiny bubbles in the right front that I can't get rid of.

 

Brought car in to mechanic and they bled brakes. Said was a lot of air in right rear. Brakes are still not good. checked for leaks under dash by brake and clutch, nothing, looked for leaks around resevoir and MC found nothing. Any ideas? Mechanic said it could be the pads.

 

How old are your brake flex hoses (the small hoses that run from the solid lines to the calipers)?

Look for buldges. Squeeze them and see if you can find any soft spots. Have some else press the brake pedal and watch the hoses and see if they are expanding anywhere. Could be that some of the pressure is being displaced by a soft spot, causing the hose to expand?

I dunno, just a thought.

 

sounde like a good thought and will check it out although this problem has happened suddenly as soon as I changed the pads and fluid.

 

Sounds like you have got all the air out so I would
recheck all the things you had apart. Look for binding pads,
sprung calipers, loose wheel bearings, things like that.
Good luck

 

What do you mean by binding pads? I was thinking about putting the old pads back in to see how it felt. Bearings are good.

 

Something is causing the pads to need to move too much to touch the
rotor on one or more wheels. Make sure the clips and retainers are installed
correctly.