Thread: give me a brake!!!

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Take your calipers off and set them on the floor,now they will definitely bleed all air out,because it sounds like you have been chasing bubbles back and forth. Hank

I went thru 3 bottles of brake fluid ,getting all the air out of mine...........

I have already set the calipers on the floor and bled them and I have been thru 2 big bottles of fluid. I just got back with a new master and in hopes that the one that came with the setup is the wrong one. By that I'm not sure the bore size and even if its for front disc. When i bought it from mp I ask for drum rear disc front . I know disc front needs 1 1/8 bore and from what I have read the disc side of the master has a larger reservoir. The one that came with it , both are the same size. It could be for a durm durm setup. Not enought to push the disc pistons. Yes I am reaching but whats left.

Do you have the right calipers for the size of rotors that you have? If you have a big car caliper on a camaro size rotor your brakes will not work because the caliper is extended to far out. The same thing can happen if your rotors are turned to thin. I know people will say it doesn't matter because the caliper is full of fluid but, I have run into this problem before on a racecar that had calipers that were from an Impala and I had camaro rotors and on a honda civic because the rotors were turned to thin. I went through a gallon of brake fluid and even took the racecar and had the brakes pressure bled and still no brakes. I took the car home and looked at the calipers and saw that they were already extended out about 1/4 inch. I changed to the narrower calipers and had no problems bleeding the brakes after the change.