Soft pedal after much bleeding.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:31 pm
Hi again, I know this has been covered before on the old forum but please bear with me.....
After doing a rear disc conversion, braided lines and mc/servo upgrade I have done much pressure bleeding and also one session of manual two person bleeding (with calipers fitted on the car), I now have a nice firm pedal with engine off but once she's running I seem to get a lot of travel before pretty good braking finally occurs, this doesn't seem right to me.
I don't think its play in the push rod as that feels fairly solid so kind of erring towards still having air in the system. I have left her with the cap unscrewed for a while as I read somewhere that this may help and (imagination maybe?) it seems a bit better, but is it worth taking the calipers off again and bleeding them manually upside down? As she's currently sorn'd I can't really take her out for a spin to fully test it out, but It doesn't feel quite right at the mo.
I don't think air is getting in at the unions as the pedal hasn't got worse over time since doing the work (a good while ago now!!!!) as i thought it would, I may be wrong on my understanding here though. Also haven't adjusted the handbrake yet but didn't think this would affect it much??
Basically run out of ideas
so any help/suggestions would be great. 
The only other option is to get her insured and in for an MOT, they would let me know one way or the other I guess.
After doing a rear disc conversion, braided lines and mc/servo upgrade I have done much pressure bleeding and also one session of manual two person bleeding (with calipers fitted on the car), I now have a nice firm pedal with engine off but once she's running I seem to get a lot of travel before pretty good braking finally occurs, this doesn't seem right to me.
I don't think its play in the push rod as that feels fairly solid so kind of erring towards still having air in the system. I have left her with the cap unscrewed for a while as I read somewhere that this may help and (imagination maybe?) it seems a bit better, but is it worth taking the calipers off again and bleeding them manually upside down? As she's currently sorn'd I can't really take her out for a spin to fully test it out, but It doesn't feel quite right at the mo.
I don't think air is getting in at the unions as the pedal hasn't got worse over time since doing the work (a good while ago now!!!!) as i thought it would, I may be wrong on my understanding here though. Also haven't adjusted the handbrake yet but didn't think this would affect it much??
Basically run out of ideas
so any help/suggestions would be great. The only other option is to get her insured and in for an MOT, they would let me know one way or the other I guess.
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.......ooh, its almost a dance off....