Hi everyone,
I converted both my cars to vacuum brakes. My original owner WE4 was nothing. Swap and bleed. And I was good to go.
Ok my other WE4. Which has not been driven in 22 years is a different story. So far I started with a new vacuum booster and master cylinder.
Front calipers were completely seized. So I replaced both of them as well as the pads. Rotors are good. I looked at the brake hoses they are definitely starting to dry rot but not leaking.
I do have brake fluid making its way to the calipers because it was a constant drip from the tip of the brake hoses when I removed the old calipers. So anyway the drivers side will grip a little bit if I pump the pedal fast. But absolutely nothing on the passenger side. I borrowed the brake bleed tool from autozone which was no help at all because the hose kept falling off. And all I got was small splashes of brake fluid out of the bleeder valves.
Literally the only thing that is stopping the car when I did pull it back in the garage was the back drum brakes (that I haven’t even looked at yet). But I’m stumped. I spent 2 hours of constantly trying to bleed the front brakes. Idk what else to do. I won’t have to money to buy brake hoses till I get my pension check at the end of the month. I got both calipers for free with my rewards points. How can I tell if my brake hoses are the problem? They aren’t leaking but they are starting to dry rot of the outer rubber. How can I tell if my proportioning valve is bad or the actual problem?
Any help would be awesome. Like I said I went for a quick drive around the storage yard and to stop the car I need to quickly pump the brakes and it goes to the floor.
Thank you in advance
Bill
I converted both my cars to vacuum brakes. My original owner WE4 was nothing. Swap and bleed. And I was good to go.
Ok my other WE4. Which has not been driven in 22 years is a different story. So far I started with a new vacuum booster and master cylinder.
Front calipers were completely seized. So I replaced both of them as well as the pads. Rotors are good. I looked at the brake hoses they are definitely starting to dry rot but not leaking.
I do have brake fluid making its way to the calipers because it was a constant drip from the tip of the brake hoses when I removed the old calipers. So anyway the drivers side will grip a little bit if I pump the pedal fast. But absolutely nothing on the passenger side. I borrowed the brake bleed tool from autozone which was no help at all because the hose kept falling off. And all I got was small splashes of brake fluid out of the bleeder valves.
Literally the only thing that is stopping the car when I did pull it back in the garage was the back drum brakes (that I haven’t even looked at yet). But I’m stumped. I spent 2 hours of constantly trying to bleed the front brakes. Idk what else to do. I won’t have to money to buy brake hoses till I get my pension check at the end of the month. I got both calipers for free with my rewards points. How can I tell if my brake hoses are the problem? They aren’t leaking but they are starting to dry rot of the outer rubber. How can I tell if my proportioning valve is bad or the actual problem?
Any help would be awesome. Like I said I went for a quick drive around the storage yard and to stop the car I need to quickly pump the brakes and it goes to the floor.
Thank you in advance
Bill
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