Brakes are causing me some agro, can't get a decent pedal, despite getting on for 4 litres through system, triggering abs solenoids, pressure bleeding, conventional up down etc.
Been on the
@Brigsy helpline a few times ......
Only big change is recon rear calipers, rear drivers is doing some strange things, when I trigger solenoid it was throwing loads of air in bleed tube, not taking a while to come through, but instantly, you can see it pulse back and forth as the solenoid works.
Only that caliper, discovered union had a slight weep, which despite removing, cleaning and doing up far tighter than I would normally do , it's still wet.
Thought about it, slept on it, and remembered seeing a drilling close to threads down the bore of the fitting, checked old caliper and it's not there.
Think it's far enough away from the flare seat to cause a leak, why it's there, dunno? Looks machined in, not damage or corrosion related, so current attack is to rebuild old caliper with new seals and see what that does, not happy with preloved APEC pads either, there's a fanny pad on the piston side and looking at listings for Ferodo/mintex/ATE/TRW pads there's s locating spring for caliper piston, clips on piston ?
When I built Campus back up I tried re using APEC pads and good discs and the pedal was similarly crap, ditched them and all was good.
Best way I can describe what pedal feels like is a drum braked car that's not adjusted up right at back? Rear calipers feel loose, backed off too much?
Sort rear caliper, try some Ferodo pads and bleed again, after that I can only think master is low on pressure, but I can't remember brakes being this shit before I changed calipers.
I put blanks in rear pipes when I dropped old calipers, so didn't expect to have to bleed as much as I have already done.
Thought fresh rear calipers I'd be winning, how wrong I was.....
