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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:50:29 GMT
From: "Sport" <steveginnnopsamail.com>
Subject: Re: Brake Bleeding Questions '99 9-3


Thanks for the interest. It's spongy brakes. We're doing the 2 person, 3 pump/open/close on a level drive way. 10 times on each wheel starting at the farthest from the master cylinder. I don't think it has anything to do with expanding the pads. The brakes have been applied many times including activating the ABS a couple times. Any advice would be appreciated. Steve > Or is it spongy brakes you're experiencing? In which case we're > probably talking about air in the hydraulics. > > So we have a better of idea of the level of fix done, can you tell a bit > about the bleeding technique? With air pressure from the reservoir, > or the "two-person push-open-close-release method"? "Robert Brown" <rjbnopsamripnetvvv.se> wrote in message news:3DD098D1.BAEFD39Bnopsamripnetvvv.se... > Sport wrote: > > > 1999 9-3 SE 5-door, auto, ABS, 41,000 mi. > > > > Can you offer suggestions to help with a soft brake pedal? > > > > I replaced the front discs and pads this weekend. Everything came apart > > easily and went back the same. Afterward, the pedal was soft which I didn't > > expect. There is maybe a couple inches of soft travel in the pedal before > > it starts slowing the car. > > > > I have bled the brakes now 4 times and while the pedal is better, it's not > > back to where it was. If I jab them once and then apply the brake, then > > they feel nice and firm. > > > > I'm bleeding them in this order: rr, lr, rf, lf. Between each bleeding > > cycle, I activate the ABS which I was told to do. > > Could be that after replacing the pads, the gap between > piston-pad-disc has to be taken up by the hydraulics by pumping > a few times (about 20 or so). Until this is done you may have > long pedal travel before contact. > > Or is it spongy brakes you're experiencing? In which case we're > probably talking about air in the hydraulics. > > So we have a better of idea of the level of fix done, can you tell a bit > about the bleeding technique? With air pressure from the reservoir, > or the "two-person push-open-close-release method"? > > /Robert >

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