Brake issues got air in them
 

I replaced my pistons on my rear brakes becuase they were seized.
I bled both of the back drum brakes.

But when i start my car and put the foot down on the brake, it goes down slowly,
if i pump it alittle it gets harder.
:(

Now I bled my brakes when my car was ON and it was idleing.

I have seen that the honda manual says to go
Driver rear,
front left,
passager left
driver right.

In this order.

DO i need to bleed all of the brakes, or the ones I just opened ?
:-[

Ive looked through the haynes manual, and it dont make sense :P ^-^

Can any one help ?

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

You need to do all of them.

Don't do it with the car running.

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

foook

so the car has to be off ?

any reason why ? :o

have i damaged some thing on the car ?

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

if the car's running the brake booster is running, you dont need that ----.

do all 4, start the farthest from the master cylinder and work your way closer.

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

does it matter in which order ?
or shall i do it the honda way ?

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

---- what the book says, Fook is right.



RR > LR > FR > FL
dont use a any of the fancy bleeders they suck. but if you are gonna have to do it by yourself get a set of the bleeder screws with the one way valve in them. the name for them is escaping me right now but i'm sure you knwo what i'm talking about

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

start working farthest away so you're working out the air farthest away first, then you slowly work closer and closer to the fluid source.

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

ill give that a try
ill report back tommorow

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

That didnt work :-[
Ive got through 3 tins of honda brake fluid so far. :-X

this time round i bled the brakes as advised.

the pedal is really soft when the car is off ... but it gets harder when i press it a couple of times.
but it still travells alot :'(

When the car is off, and press the pedal, after 2 times it gets hard but only travels 1 inch or so.

HELP!

Re: Brake issues got air in them
 

if you bled them correctly and it still soft the next thing i would do is bleed the master cyl and then do the brakes again. if you do that and it still soft its prob you the master cyl