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Old 03-08-2014, 05:56 PM
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So....This morning,my brake pedal starts feeling a lil "spongy"

get home,park it,bear down on the pedal,look underneath,no leaks.

OK....maybe some air got in the lines ?

take it down to a shop,pads and rotors OK,cant bleed the lines....only a dealer can do that with a scanner.They put they're scanner on it....thing lights up like a xmas tree,maybe half doz codes related to brakes n sensors.

All of sudden.....NO BRAKES AT ALL.

had to drive her home using side streets,puttin in nuetral,using the emergency brake.

Damn....jus put a lot of $ into her on that vinyl wrap n suspension

 
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Old 03-08-2014, 06:01 PM
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The shop wouldn't bleed the brakes because only a dealer with a scanner can do that? WTF?

Any brake fluid in the reservoir? Tried bleeding them yourself?
 

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Old 03-08-2014, 06:27 PM
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yea reservoir's good.
IF.... I got an air bub in the lines....it "snuck" in there somehow ?
brakes were fine last week,this jus came up.

possible abs control module ???? somewehere around $1500 smacks Plus DEALER PRICED LABOR CHARGES ! plus not being able to work while the trucks down

OOOOOHHHHHH ! LUCKY ME !
 
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Check your vacuum hose and check valve at booster. And yeh, that makes no sense about needing a scanner to bleed the brakes. Or your master cylinder is bad. Or a bad leak on a line or wheel cylinder??
 
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vacuum !! hmmmmm...... possible
otherwise I'm stuck till Mon morn
 
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Are any of the lites on? ABS? Brake?

Chances are, the line going above the gas tank blew. It won't always show up on the ground right away.

Don't need a scanner to bleed the brakes either.

Think I would crawl under there, and closely inspect the full length of the rear brake line, pull the drums, and see what you find.
 
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yea...jus went thru my manual...bleed the lines like any other
yea "brake" lite is on
gonna go check that line
 
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master cylinder was all,,,,, NO DEALER ABS CRAP

put new pads in all around while I was there

bled everything

rock n roll.....ready to go
 



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