Really dumb question.. But when I was bleeding my brakes last night, I had a bunch of friends over, and in between trying to be a good host, bleeding my brakes, and drinking/eating.. I ended up bleeding my brakes with my e-brake fully yanked, and didn't notice until after I buttoned everything up and put my car back down on the ground.

I went for a quick 2 minute drive around the neighborhood, and noticed a little more pedal travel than I really wanted.. The brakes work good, and the ABS kicks in just fine, but I feel the engagement point and 'plush' feel, might be a little softer than I wanted... Could this be, because I had the e-brake yanked while bleeding my brakes??

btw, I did the two-person method.. I've never been able to successfully pull off the Gravity Bleeding method on my car, it just takes too damn long, and I'm a REALLY impatient person.. haha We did 5 full pumps on each corner, then on the 5th, hold in the brake let it go almost all the way to the floor after cracking the bleeder, let all the bubbles get out of the line, close up the bleeder, let go of pedal. Then went to the next wheel.. We did DF, PF, PR, DR from driver front around clockwise.


Help! I need a firm brake pedal again Oh, and btw.. if it helps any, I used the Valvoline Synthetic DOT3/4 Brake Fluid, and yes, made sure the master cylinder resevoir stayed filled during each corner being bled.

Thanks in advance,
Tylor

 

haha, that reminds me of the time when I had to replace the rear pads on an Integra and for the life of me I could not get the shit loose.. until I saw the brake up, lol.

 

lol^

Bump for it being a Wednesday.. boooo

 

Bump for technical peeps being lame today!!!!!! =/

 

Gravity bleed it again.
You will see bubbles.
Only takes seconds.
It takes more time to lift the car, remove wheel and put the wheel back on and lower the car and torque down the lug nuts than it does to garavity bleed.

 

Weren't you supposed to start from the furthest wheel from the master cylinders? PR, DR, PF, and then DF?

 

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