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Old Jan 31, 2015 | 06:55 PM
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95 1500 w/rwal. so the the brakes have been feeling spongy so i figured i would bleed them. I have bled brakes on a lot of cars but this ram won't give up the fluid. wife pumps them up and holds down the pedal and I get nothing when I crack the bleeder. turned the truck on and did the same and only got a little dribble. is there something I am missing here? I tried both rears and then drivers side front thinking maybe I could get something out of the closest brake but just a little dribble came out. thanks in advance, Joe
 
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Could be the rubber lines are collapsed. Had that happen on a car I owned once. They can collapse inside and you cant tell from the outside.
 
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Originally Posted by jkeaton
Could be the rubber lines are collapsed. Had that happen on a car I owned once. They can collapse inside and you cant tell from the outside.
I second this. I replaced a caliper on my caravan thinking it was seized, until I went to compress it and couldn't. I popped the hose off the caliper completely and pumped the brakes, and still had no fluid coming out. Replaced the hose and was up and running.

In my case the hose was acting like a bit of a 1 way check valve, so over the course of the day, during city driving my front left caliper would seize up.
 
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Originally Posted by issakar
I second this. I replaced a caliper on my caravan thinking it was seized, until I went to compress it and couldn't. I popped the hose off the caliper completely and pumped the brakes, and still had no fluid coming out. Replaced the hose and was up and running.

In my case the hose was acting like a bit of a 1 way check valve, so over the course of the day, during city driving my front left caliper would seize up.
That's exactly what mine did.
 
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