Well...been trying to bleed the brakes for many, many hours. Did the bench bleeding twice, gravity bleeding, pressure bleeding. Decided my "new" master cylinder was bad. On the way to the parts store, I called my friend who suggested I change the rear pads and see of that helps. Made sense as I have a regulator on the lines and the rears did lock up a while ago. Pulled the rear tire and saw the pads were junk. Since I did the spring over, the spring pack now gets in the way of getting the top allen head bolt out of the calipers. Had to take off the mounting plate to get it to get the caliper out, otherwise I couldn't get the rotor off.
Bottom line I have a beer in my hand sitting in my kitchen now. One wheel off the truck, caliper in pieces, and a possible junk MC still mounted to the booster. Got really nothing done but still had fun.
Basically I think I'm gonna re-do the MC anyway, run all new brake lines, pads, etc and make sure I can stop finally.
UPDATE: Autozone has rebuilt calipers with a lifetime warranty for $14.99. Tough to pass up new vs unsticking the old ones that are apparently frozen.
Bottom line I have a beer in my hand sitting in my kitchen now. One wheel off the truck, caliper in pieces, and a possible junk MC still mounted to the booster. Got really nothing done but still had fun.
Basically I think I'm gonna re-do the MC anyway, run all new brake lines, pads, etc and make sure I can stop finally.
UPDATE: Autozone has rebuilt calipers with a lifetime warranty for $14.99. Tough to pass up new vs unsticking the old ones that are apparently frozen.
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Holy no kidding??? i don't know what to think....where should I take it?
i know, it really doesn't matter!
