rear brakes on my 1500
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Close the rear bleeders. Have a friend pump up the brakes, and crack open one of the FRONT bleeders. You will want to have the bleeder broke loose already, so that it doesn't require a great deal of effort to open it up when the time comes. The idea here is to "shock" the proportioning valve back into the correct position.
Then try bleeding the rears again. It takes a while to get fluid back there, what I usually do, is open one of the bleeders slightly, and stick my finger over the end, and have someone else pump the pedal, until I start getting fluid blowing my finger off the valve. (and more fluid than air.....) Doing the pump, open, close, pump, open.... etc, thing with empty lines, you will be at it forever. I get bored easily, so use the aforementioned method.
Then try bleeding the rears again. It takes a while to get fluid back there, what I usually do, is open one of the bleeders slightly, and stick my finger over the end, and have someone else pump the pedal, until I start getting fluid blowing my finger off the valve. (and more fluid than air.....) Doing the pump, open, close, pump, open.... etc, thing with empty lines, you will be at it forever. I get bored easily, so use the aforementioned method.
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Close the rear bleeders. Have a friend pump up the brakes, and crack open one of the FRONT bleeders. You will want to have the bleeder broke loose already, so that it doesn't require a great deal of effort to open it up when the time comes. The idea here is to "shock" the proportioning valve back into the correct position.
Then try bleeding the rears again. It takes a while to get fluid back there, what I usually do, is open one of the bleeders slightly, and stick my finger over the end, and have someone else pump the pedal, until I start getting fluid blowing my finger off the valve. (and more fluid than air.....) Doing the pump, open, close, pump, open.... etc, thing with empty lines, you will be at it forever. I get bored easily, so use the aforementioned method.
Then try bleeding the rears again. It takes a while to get fluid back there, what I usually do, is open one of the bleeders slightly, and stick my finger over the end, and have someone else pump the pedal, until I start getting fluid blowing my finger off the valve. (and more fluid than air.....) Doing the pump, open, close, pump, open.... etc, thing with empty lines, you will be at it forever. I get bored easily, so use the aforementioned method.