Greetings everyone,
Today I've reached my wits end. I've given it my best effort and will now turn to professional help. I followed the bench bleeding procedure carefully and bled all wheels in turn. Still brakes are weak with pedal drop and a persistant brake warning light. There was a marginal improvement, perhaps a second round of bleeding the master and wheels might be in order, but my gut feeling from the start has been that this master cylinder is defective.
So, we'll see what Mr. Bigaboo says about all this. I have the reciept and an army of free lawyers on my Air Force base probably with nothing to do if it gets to that. I don't care to get a replacement from him, just my money back so I can buy one from Phil. The money I "saved" buying from him has been eaten by the 5 litres of brake fluid, time, gas and frustration.
Lesson learned. Buy from reputable source ALWAYS.
Now, maybe this guy will be honest about this and didn't know it was defective. Still I would like to open it up and see what the bore and cups look like.
Thanks for the help. I think I've gotten pretty good at bleeding brakes now.
