Brake pedal goes to the floor??????
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Brake pedal goes to the floor??????
i have an 89 xj, the brakes work just fine until i get on an incline once im nose up or down, the peddle goes to the floor and wont build up pressure. i have replaced the calipers, and had the rear drums turned and new shoes, and had them re-adjusted, i also replaced the master cylinder. now i have this prolem. can someone please help me, im losing my mind over this. someone mentioned that i need to re-bleed the system, does this sound like an air in the lines problem? if so, why does it work on level ground? thank you!
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It is a bad master cylinder. I don't know why position affects it, but when the pedal goes to the floor and there is fluid in it, that is the problem.
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this problem was going on before i changed my master out. altough, the original problem was from my rears being way too un-adjusted. so maybe it could be the new master! can you tell if this is a bad idea?, i want to put in some sort of die, food coloring, into the system so that when i bleed, i know for sure that i am getting all the way trough the lines. Bad idea or ok to do????
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this problem was going on before i changed my master out. altough, the original problem was from my rears being way too un-adjusted. so maybe it could be the new master! can you tell if this is a bad idea?, i want to put in some sort of die, food coloring, into the system so that when i bleed, i know for sure that i am getting all the way trough the lines. Bad idea or ok to do????
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ok so i got to somewhat diagnose the problem this weekend, what i found: my brakes only go bad when i am steering extreme left. even on flat ground. any new ideas?
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