about $46 from Napa. Just did one on my 88 last weekend. and, I'm kidding about the jacket and fire........

 

How can you tell if the master cylinder went out?

 

Lots of pedal travel along with poor braking performance. If it nosedives real bad when brkaes are applied, the part of teh MC fo rthe rear brakes went bad. If when you apply the brakes it slows dwon kinda crappy and DOESN'T nosedive, the part of the MC for the front brakes is bad.

 

Yeah all we have here is a Napa unless I wanna go to buckeye

 

Wats the mc?

 

Master Cylinder.

 

Lol my bad duh. But yeah it pretty much nose dives and catches if I'm driving and I pump it a couple times

 

If you're not losing fluid, replace the MC and adjust up your rear brake shoes.

 

Ok will do that as soon as I can and report back

 

pump pedal when it comes up hold steady pressure on pedal if it slowly sinks and theres no leaks masters bypassing replace it.If it holds adjust rears and bleed each wheel one more time and see what ya got. Early xj braking is one step above Fred Flinstone so don't expect much...

 

So did everything everyone said and still didn't work so I bought a master cylinder replaced it and breaks work great now.. thanks everyone appreciate all the help

 

Didn't I say that in Post # 14?

Did you adjust up your rear BRAKE shoes?

 

Lol my bad wat I meant was I did everything to try to avoid changing mc but had to anyways and yes you did say that. And yes I did adjust the rear shoes

 

Alright. You're off the hook. LOL.

 

Lol thanks