I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this before?
I started the other day changing out my brake lines on my lx wagon for steel braided like all my other cars have. I did the rears first RR then LR and bled each line. Took the car out for a trip arround the block and everything was fine.
Yesterday i started working on the fronts, FR first everything went on fine bled the line, brake grabbed normal stuff. Went on to the FL this is where things got weird. Pulled off the brake line, threw on the new one started bleeding it and noticed alot more air than should of been in the line, i accidentally let it run low on fluid using the vac pump cause i was distracted at the time. Went back into the house to get a fresh bottle and remembered i had a vigor 290mm booster and m.c. sitting in the workshop...
Soooo i figured since i already ran the thing out of fluid and i was going to have to bleed the m.c. again anyway i might as well throw the vigor stuff on. Next step, got the bigger booster installed. No need going into the details of how to make it fit, im sure someone has a writeup or something about it somewhere on here. Bench bled the vigs mc and realized the rear fitting is a larger thread than the accord and i didnt have a flare tool to modify the line and install the larger fitting. So i bench bled the accords mc again and threw it back on.
Went through the motions of bleeding the brakes again, RR RL FR and when i got to the FL the system again was pulling fluid through with a decent ammount of air in it but the fluid was comming out slower than the right side with the same pressure applied. So we got the rest of the air out, dropped it off the jack and took it arround the block for a quick drive. Nothing quicker than 30 mph. I noticed that the car was pulling hard to the right when braking, pulled back into the driveway jacked the car up took the car out of gear and had someone press the brake while i spun each wheel and when i got to the front drivers side noticed that no matter how hard the pedal was pressed the caliper would not grab. Pulled the wheel back off and noticed there was a gap between the piston and the rear pad. Pumped the brakes a bunch and still didnt compress. Checked the front brake lines for kinks then went back into the workshop and grabbed another front caliper hooked it up to see if the caliper was blown, spare wouldnt move either.
Did anyone else ever have this issue with the accords that only 1 side wouldnt grab? I was thinking it might be the proportioning valve has a issue? i really cant think of anything else it would be at this point and was hoping someone else who knows these cars could provide insight on why this would happen?
I started the other day changing out my brake lines on my lx wagon for steel braided like all my other cars have. I did the rears first RR then LR and bled each line. Took the car out for a trip arround the block and everything was fine.
Yesterday i started working on the fronts, FR first everything went on fine bled the line, brake grabbed normal stuff. Went on to the FL this is where things got weird. Pulled off the brake line, threw on the new one started bleeding it and noticed alot more air than should of been in the line, i accidentally let it run low on fluid using the vac pump cause i was distracted at the time. Went back into the house to get a fresh bottle and remembered i had a vigor 290mm booster and m.c. sitting in the workshop...
Soooo i figured since i already ran the thing out of fluid and i was going to have to bleed the m.c. again anyway i might as well throw the vigor stuff on. Next step, got the bigger booster installed. No need going into the details of how to make it fit, im sure someone has a writeup or something about it somewhere on here. Bench bled the vigs mc and realized the rear fitting is a larger thread than the accord and i didnt have a flare tool to modify the line and install the larger fitting. So i bench bled the accords mc again and threw it back on.
Went through the motions of bleeding the brakes again, RR RL FR and when i got to the FL the system again was pulling fluid through with a decent ammount of air in it but the fluid was comming out slower than the right side with the same pressure applied. So we got the rest of the air out, dropped it off the jack and took it arround the block for a quick drive. Nothing quicker than 30 mph. I noticed that the car was pulling hard to the right when braking, pulled back into the driveway jacked the car up took the car out of gear and had someone press the brake while i spun each wheel and when i got to the front drivers side noticed that no matter how hard the pedal was pressed the caliper would not grab. Pulled the wheel back off and noticed there was a gap between the piston and the rear pad. Pumped the brakes a bunch and still didnt compress. Checked the front brake lines for kinks then went back into the workshop and grabbed another front caliper hooked it up to see if the caliper was blown, spare wouldnt move either.
Did anyone else ever have this issue with the accords that only 1 side wouldnt grab? I was thinking it might be the proportioning valve has a issue? i really cant think of anything else it would be at this point and was hoping someone else who knows these cars could provide insight on why this would happen?
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