bleed damn you!!

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So I finally did the logical solution to getting my right front caliper unstuck, relaced the caliper!! I am in the process of trying to bleed the brakes and am a bit stuck on something seemingly simple....

I have a tube going over the bleeder screw, the tube extends into a plastic container filled with about two inches worth of new brake fluid.

I have wifey press on the pedal with the bleeder screw closed

I have her hold the pedal down.

I release the bleeder screw

Air bubbles come out the other end of the tube...but...NO fluid!!

I've repeated this several gajillion times (okay, probably 100 or so, no kidding) with no change. Absolutely no fluid comes out of the bleeder screw, just air. I did lose quite a bit of fluid during the change but fook me, I have to get this done sometime this millenia, it's getting quite frustrating. What am I missing

I pulled everything apart twice to make sure the banjo bolt was lined up correctly, the copper gaskets are installed and nothing is leaking. The master cylinder is full and the top is secured properly.

Mayday, mayday!!! landing in Telluride is easier than this!!!

 
What? Telluride? When?

Boy, as I was reading that I was thinking of different things you could check. And as I kept reading my list got smaller until, nothing. Well almost...

So you are sure there is no fluid at all coming out? Like if you were to take that tube off the caliper and let it bleed all over itself.

And it also seems pretty spectacular that you still have air in the line after bleeding it 100 times. That just seems crazy :confused2: Just to feel like I accomplished something, I'd probably try and bleed a different caliper (I'm guessing you've only been bleeding one...)

My conclusion is that your caliper is possessed. Oooor there is something simple and heartbreakingly obvious that something one is going point out soon enough.

 
For a free flight to Telluride, I'll come up and fix it.

Have her pump the pedal until it gets hard, then crack the bleeder real fast.

If the pedal won't get hard, this has worked for me; Crack the bleeder and go have a beer. By the time the beer is done, fluid should be dripping from the bleeder. Close it and pump the pedal.

Do yourself a favor and bleed them all as soon as you can. Sounds like yous just gut some massive air dood.

 
I would say "gut-wrenchingly obvious", needless to say, I found out what was wrong. Caliper bled, problem fixed

but to not let this entire thread go to waste, here is what I was talking about with the landing at Telluride. I'm glad I don't go there anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzpq-G0o_g

and that's a pretty calm day

 
hmmmmm

I would say that they are almost equally hairy approaches in their own ways, but I would say that Telluride is defiantly worse

 
Jeez they make you bleed your own brakes on your jet?

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I would say "gut-wrenchingly obvious", needless to say, I found out what was wrong. Caliper bled, problem fixed

but to not let this entire thread go to waste, here is what I was talking about with the landing at Telluride. I'm glad I don't go there anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzpq-G0o_g

and that's a pretty calm day
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hard to tell the elevation changes but this reminds me of wilkesbarre-scranton.

 
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