4pots spongy pedal

[Ninja8)]

good evening everybody...

hope this aint a big problem..done everything i could that i could already so here it goes.

upgraded to front 4pots yesterday with brand new bendix ultimate pads and re-skimmed rotors at 23mm (minimum 22mm)and BNTs super dot4 fluid.

i leaked out all the old fluid while changing the calipers in order to top up with new fluid. got the mrs in the drivers seat to help bleed the brakes. started at the furthest point away from the master cylinder. so the bleeding sequence was: passenger rear, driver rear, passenger front, driver front

bleed each side about 4 -5 times.

when pumping the brakes...the pedal gets tougher as you pump each time which means theres pressure and fluid comes out which means lines arent blocked or whatever. HOWEVER....when you turn the car on...a full spongy pedal! and it goes right to the floor.

anyone shed some light as to what i can do to get my brake force back? the only thing i can think of now is try a different fluid? or keep bleeding?? ive been through about 600ml of brake fluid already!!

thanks guys

[caspros]

It would be very funny if you did the same thing I did :

http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic,1465.0.html

[Ninja8)]

well i ended up changing the calipers around and it worked!!!! so i think i had them the wrong way round my first time doing it therefore i knew i would encounter a bumpy road. guess i learned from my mistake ;D

was it the same mistake u did carspro?

[caspros]

Yes ! That's exactly what it was.

[Ninja8)]

haha. at least i got it sorted. still gota wait till monday to get more brake fluid tho to give it a proper bleed.

MOD...keen to remove this?? since theres probably another same thread somewhere. didnt bother searchin lol.

[Joker]

nope - easier than reading the 5 Pages from the above link

[Ninja8)]

all g ... yea lucky i managed to diagnose it meself or i would havta read 5 pages

but how can 1 tell which caliper goes on which side?? the only difference i saw was the bolt holes on the caliper and location of bleeding nipple.

[MercuryFree]

 GNEDEF said:

all g ... yea lucky i managed to diagnose it meself or i would havta read 5 pages

but how can 1 tell which caliper goes on which side?? the only difference i saw was the bolt holes on the caliper and location of bleeding nipple.

The bleeding nipple location is how one tells

[Ninja8)]

 MercuryFree']

[quote name='GNEDEF said:

all g ... yea lucky i managed to diagnose it meself or i would havta read 5 pages

but how can 1 tell which caliper goes on which side?? the only difference i saw was the bolt holes on the caliper and location of bleeding nipple.

/quote]

The bleeding nipple location is how one tells

ohhhh!!! ;D thats 1 more fact added into my brain