So, here's the story. The car pulls really hard right when I step on the brakes. I replaced both rotors, calipers, pads, and rubber lines a month ago, still have the same problem today....

I even went and exchanged the left caliper again and it still has the problem. In fact if you look at the rotor you can still see the original machining marks from when I bought the rotors a month ago. The right caliper looks like normal wear.

When I have the car jacked up and someone in the car, they step on the break and I cannot turn the left tire.

I have bled the brakes several times, both with someone in the car pushing on the pedal and also with my vac bleeder.

Any other ideas??

 

Try replacing the line from the master to the left front. It may be partially plugged or something.

 

How much fluid did you get out the left front versus the right front when you bled the system?

 

hmmm... Can't say I noticed a difference. Wasn't really paying attention to the volume at the time, but thinking about it, the bleed I just did Saturday on the left side seemed like it didn't have as much volume as I thought it should...

I am not opposed to a pulling everything and rebuilding, or whatever is necessary, just don't want to if I don't have to.

In the meantime, anyone know of a good tutorial on removing/replacing/rebuilding entire brake system from reservoir down??

 

They don't seem to be available from the local Autozone. Any online places I can order from??

Thanks

 

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Ed

 

If you have "new" calipers, new hoses, no kinked lines and you are still experiencing this symptom, it's your combination valve. Before doing any work on your brakes did you have super dark fluid in the master cylinder? If so that was seal material and it's clogged the combination valve (aka - prop valve) front ports. I'd go ahead and replace the master cylinder (new only) as well, because it's due.
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I was afraid someone was going to tell me that.. The fluid is pretty dark...

So, can someone give me idiot proof directions to bench bleeding the master cylander, and snything else I need to watch out for??

Thanks

 

Before you tear into the braking system again - have you had the alignment checked? It's my experience that, while a bad brake can make the car drift one way or the other during braking, it's much less noticable than when the same drift is caused by alignment issues. Before I tore the braking system all down, I'd spend $39.95 on an alignment.

 

Yep, had that done about 3 weeks ago... Besides, I am sure it is not the alignment, as the new rotor on the left side you can still see the original tool marks from when the rotor was ground.. Definitely the brakes aren;t squeezing on that side.

 

Also have your ball-joints checked. I replaced everything too and it turns out a really wiped out ball joint cause a bad pull.

 

Could be a wheel bearing jamming your caliper too...check that as well.