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still no brakes, running out of options

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Old Oct 22, 2012 | 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by sungod
Are you bleeding with the truck running? If so you will never get a pedal because you have boost. I drove myself crazy the last time I bled my brakes after replacing the master cylinder because I was conviced I had no pedal because I could push it to the floor. Boost is a powerful thing. Once it bled off from pumping the brakes with the engine off the pedal was rock hard.
I just replaced all hard lines on mine except for the one over the rear axle. I had the opposite experience. I tried bleeding them with the truck off and could never get any pedal. Repeated with truck running and now pedal is rock solid.
 
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