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Old 07-22-2003, 02:29 PM
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Finally I'm done. After I e-mailed you guys, I tried 1 more time, and I guess miracle does happen. Suddenly, it is very easy to reset the piston.
THANKS THANKS THANKS

And I think I got another problem. Now my brakes performs very weird. If I press the brakes very very very little, the brakes seem to kick in. If I press more then suddenly the brake is gone until the brake pedal is 3/4 way down and the brakes start kickin in again.

HELP HELP HELP AGAIN!!
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Old 07-22-2003, 03:27 PM
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Air in the system?
Old 07-22-2003, 04:11 PM
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did you loosen the bleeder valve?
Old 07-22-2003, 04:13 PM
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Default Sounds like your pads need to bed in. Maybe quite normal.

Just drive the car and apply the brakes gently . I think the rears only do about 30% of the braking so it may take a couple of days to get full brake performance. Otherwise it's possible that if you loosened the bleed screw you may have air in there and may have to powerbleed the system.(you should probably do this anyway if the fluid is old and discolored.
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Default No, but I moved some of the brake fluid from the reservoir and then put it back in.

Could this be the problem?
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Shouldn't be. Sounds like there is no way air could have got in.
Old 07-22-2003, 05:26 PM
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Default Bleed the brakes

I never cracked my bleeders when I changed my brakes and I still somehow got air in the lines. Any air at all will give you problems.
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