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I have just added a rew car to the garage "goldie locks" , a 1969 427/390 coupe Riverside gold with a saddle interior. When I bought the car two weeks ago the brakes were barely able to stop the car. NON Power brakes, the pads look fine and the previous owner changed the fluid to Dot 3&4 Synthetic. I started at the right rear and tried to bleed the brakes the old fashion way with my bride in the driver seat doing pedal duty. When trying to bleed the brakes I could only get a small amnount of volume of fluid out of both the inboard and outboard bleeders (full depress pedal).
So I moved on to the master cylinder to see if it was air bound or needed bleeding, the bleeders were sripped and frozen so I bought the bullet, small price of $110 and bought a delco DC mastercylinder. Bench bleed prior to install, then installed. Went out and bought a Pnematic bleeder to do the job alone. (highly rated) Back to the right rear wheel, even with the power bleeder only air and some bubbles coming out almost no fuild. I did both sides of the caliper bleeders. The pedal goes to the floor with almost no resistance.
Where do I go now? proprtioning valve, I have done this previously with the power bleeder on my 67 no issues, stumped?
Thanks
Gary
I have just added a rew car to the garage "goldie locks" , a 1969 427/390 coupe Riverside gold with a saddle interior. When I bought the car two weeks ago the brakes were barely able to stop the car. NON Power brakes, the pads look fine and the previous owner changed the fluid to Dot 3&4 Synthetic. I started at the right rear and tried to bleed the brakes the old fashion way with my bride in the driver seat doing pedal duty. When trying to bleed the brakes I could only get a small amnount of volume of fluid out of both the inboard and outboard bleeders (full depress pedal).
So I moved on to the master cylinder to see if it was air bound or needed bleeding, the bleeders were sripped and frozen so I bought the bullet, small price of $110 and bought a delco DC mastercylinder. Bench bleed prior to install, then installed. Went out and bought a Pnematic bleeder to do the job alone. (highly rated) Back to the right rear wheel, even with the power bleeder only air and some bubbles coming out almost no fuild. I did both sides of the caliper bleeders. The pedal goes to the floor with almost no resistance.
Where do I go now? proprtioning valve, I have done this previously with the power bleeder on my 67 no issues, stumped?
Thanks
Gary
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