gsmith3286
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- Feb 21, 2010
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After inspecting my brakes at the end of the year, I suprised to see that both pads were shaved down to metal. I thought maybe my emergency brake engaged or something without me knowing it. Anyway, I just replace the rotor/pads and bled the system according to the instructions....a couple things...
1. When priming the dampener, the instructions say to push in the coupler a few times...well i did it by had but it didn't move much and i'm wondering if i should have hooked it up to my truck or something.
2. I bled all 4 vents. I never bled brakes before...I used the manual process to pump fluid into a glass container filled with brake fluid. I pumped to till all was clear but after pumping there were pockets of air in the tubing...is that normal? or should the tube be totally full of fluid?
3. After bleeding, I noticed that the pads were very tight on the rotors...is this normal? I checked the emergency brake system and it was disengaged. The instructions also say these brakes are self-adjusting...but they just seemed really tight....i had to use quite a bit of force to get them to move.
Any help appreciated..thanks guys.
1. When priming the dampener, the instructions say to push in the coupler a few times...well i did it by had but it didn't move much and i'm wondering if i should have hooked it up to my truck or something.
2. I bled all 4 vents. I never bled brakes before...I used the manual process to pump fluid into a glass container filled with brake fluid. I pumped to till all was clear but after pumping there were pockets of air in the tubing...is that normal? or should the tube be totally full of fluid?
3. After bleeding, I noticed that the pads were very tight on the rotors...is this normal? I checked the emergency brake system and it was disengaged. The instructions also say these brakes are self-adjusting...but they just seemed really tight....i had to use quite a bit of force to get them to move.
Any help appreciated..thanks guys.