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ok...so this is kinda strange or atleast i think, but i just replaced my brakes up front, new rotors pads calipers everything, bled the brakes and everything, but when i drive the car the brake pedal is really light almost mushy until about half way thru the pedal stroke and then its like it hits a wall and thats when the brakes grab, and itll grab hard. but its just kinda weird to me that the pedal goes down that far before the brakes grab, any suggestions?
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we bled the brakes like 5 times, im damn near positive there is no air in those lines, and we had a bleeder

EDIT: im gonna try bleedin em again tomorrow tho just for good measure, maybe i should just drain the whole damn system heh, and refill it

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adjust the rear shoes if it has any. if rear disk car check the caliper slides/pins and pads for any kind of binding or froze pins. if shoes are out of adj the master cly will have to push additional amount of fluid to the wheel cly. causind a mushy pedal. also same applies to the front there would be to much free space between caliper rotor or pads. hopefully i made sense and didnt ramble on to much smile.gif
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how did you bleed the brakes. I was always tought to do the farthest from the master cylnder first (passenger rear) and work your way up..

 

I think I had the same problem on my old corolla gts, but I can't remember :( .

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Originally posted by boro hachi:

ok...so this is kinda strange or atleast i think, but i just replaced my brakes up front, new rotors pads calipers everything, bled the brakes and everything, but when i drive the car the brake pedal is really light almost mushy until about half way thru the pedal stroke and then its like it hits a wall and thats when the brakes grab, and itll grab hard. but its just kinda weird to me that the pedal goes down that far before the brakes grab, any suggestions?

Well, I can tell you Toyotas have been know for their problem with MASTER CYLINDERS. I've had a lot of Toyotas and I've noticed this to be of concern, especially with Celicas. Master cylinders aren't that cheap to get, but if you've replaced everything else of major consequence, I would be pretty confident that the MC needs replaced. Also, you might want to try to adjust out your rear brakes as well, especially if they are drums. Hope this helps.
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