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Hello all,
I need some serious help. First, my car is an 87 turbo 5 speed. now my problem. The brakes wont bleed out. When I brought the car home it developed an issue where the brakes would fall to the floor and I would have to pump them to stop the car. What I have done so far is, I have bled the brakes and replaced the master. The master was bench bled, and I have bled the brakes from the rear passenger to the rear driver, to the front passenger, to the front driver like 50 times already. The front seems to have great pressure. when I bleed them they shoot out fluid so i dont think they are the problem. The rears are a different story. When I bleed them only a little trickle of fluid comes out and when the brake is pumped I can hear a weezing like there is air in the ABS assembly on the passenger side of the engine bay. How do I bleed the ABS system? It seems that this is the culprit for not allowing any fluid to the rears. and when i start the car to test the breaks out they are just as dead as ever. Could I just disconnect the brake lines that lead to the rear off of the abs and get the air out that way? or is there a way to power bleed them aside from a pressurized system which i dont want to buy if Im only going to use it one time? I know the MKIV's ABS system can be jumped to make the pump work, is there a way to do this on the MKIII?
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for the help.
-Nick
I need some serious help. First, my car is an 87 turbo 5 speed. now my problem. The brakes wont bleed out. When I brought the car home it developed an issue where the brakes would fall to the floor and I would have to pump them to stop the car. What I have done so far is, I have bled the brakes and replaced the master. The master was bench bled, and I have bled the brakes from the rear passenger to the rear driver, to the front passenger, to the front driver like 50 times already. The front seems to have great pressure. when I bleed them they shoot out fluid so i dont think they are the problem. The rears are a different story. When I bleed them only a little trickle of fluid comes out and when the brake is pumped I can hear a weezing like there is air in the ABS assembly on the passenger side of the engine bay. How do I bleed the ABS system? It seems that this is the culprit for not allowing any fluid to the rears. and when i start the car to test the breaks out they are just as dead as ever. Could I just disconnect the brake lines that lead to the rear off of the abs and get the air out that way? or is there a way to power bleed them aside from a pressurized system which i dont want to buy if Im only going to use it one time? I know the MKIV's ABS system can be jumped to make the pump work, is there a way to do this on the MKIII?
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for the help.
-Nick