I just bought a 99 Durango with 57000 miles on it. The guy said that it needed brake work. So I(myself) changed the rear drums and the rotors,pads and claipers on the front.
Took it for a ride and they just didnt seem to be catching right. Went and bleed the brakes(all 4 ) and now it stops better and the nose is starting to dip when brakes are applied. But I have to pump like twice to three times before I have a pedal.
I guess my question is there a SPECIAL way to bleed brakes? I did rear(L) to Front(R) and then crossed back over and did the other two.
It has a V-8 with ABS
Thanks in advance

 

master cylinder is bad it sounds like.. cost like $50-60 bucks just for the cylinder at autozone and use ur old reservoir. Or buy the entire thing for about $75-80

(may be cheaper then that.. thats what it was the last time i checked)

 

Thanks... Well I spoke with a person I know and he said that once he had to dissconnect each line one at a time from the master cly. Well I did it and the pedal got a little better. Now Im asking could it be the proportoing(sp) valve? Im hardly getting any fluid at both rear brakes

 

No, I really doubt that.

Either you have air still in the system or you need a new master cylinder. Get a suction bleeder and bleed them right or use it to push the fluid through.

 

OK thanks for the help... one other thing I forgot to mention. When we were bleeding the rears we would pump them up and then when the bleeder was opened only a couple drops came out BUT the pedal didn't drop. It stayed up.

 

after spending countless hours of my own time & still having mushy brakes one day, pedal to the floor another day, 1 rear brake drum smoking, & even having the rear brakes lock up, i finally brought it to my mechanic when they locked up at 70mph.....ripping the pads, springs & clips out of the backing plate. he re-did everything i did & told me to test drive....still didn't feel right, he took it apart several times & had problems bleeding the rear brakes especially. replaced one of the rear rubber lines, which from the outside looked & felt fine. PERFECTO. upon closer examination, this one rubber line had a soft spot approx 3/8" around-so soft you could push it together with your fingers. assumption was the the was squeezing tight & not always releasing properly, causing the rear brakes to not release all the time.

 

Thanks for the insight! I will crawl under it today and see if I feel anything funky with the brake lines.

 

I've heared this before and that was the problem.