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Originally Posted by dhutton
I was having trouble with my rear disc brakes. No matter what I did they would not grab. I bled them 5 times and replaced the hoses. I ordered but did not install a new power assisted master to replace my manual master. Ordered a Longacre brake pressure gauge. Finally figured out that I was turning my Wilwood proportioning valve the wrong direction and I had essentially turned them off. DOH! The direction that you should turn it is clearly shown on the knob but my lousy eyesight and bifocals made it difficult for me to see. Luckily I can use the new master on my current project and I learned a bunch in the process. Hard learned lessons are usually the best ones in my experience.
Don
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Your story reminded me of a couple months ago my buddy asks if I'd help bleed his brakes - I have a "one man" air driven brake bleeder which is pretty handy... He hasn't liked his 6 piston Wilwoods... and I had talked him into ditching the power booster and just going with a Wilwood manual master. So when I get my face down by the front brakes I notice that the rotor is brand spanking new - as in - no pad has ever touched this thing... and NO he says he didn't put new rotors on.... So for over a year he's been tooling around with ZERO front brake action... Bleeding them went a long way to helping his "issue"....
