Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:59:45 +0100 From: Robert Brown <rjbnopsamripnetvvv.se> Subject: Re: Brake Bleeding Questions '99 9-3
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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