i just came in from bleeding the brakes for the 100th time.
status : each reservoir chamber has two holes, one small, one big. the piston i assume starts between these two. the big bore is for ventilation basically ?
so the bubbles come out of the big bore of the rear chamber no matter what and how you try to bleed.
when i turn on the engine and the vaccum is there i think the pedal goes down fairly far.
but i thought about the power on the rear brakes. i go to D (car jacked up) and apply the brakes i slow down the rear rotors to exactly zero but thats it. i dont have more power than to do that. so while driving the rear calipers have enough power to stop the wheels from pushing but not to really brake the car.
now my engine is fully done and delivers great torque. lets assume thats 450 ftlbs at my idle of 800 RPM. multiply that with 2 to 2.5 from the converter, 2.5 from first gear and 3.08 from diff. you have some torque at the wheel.
maybe it is just that the brakes in the rear are too small ? maybe it is not bad bleeding or air but just the size of that tiny corvette rear caliper ?
Last edited by Novette_71; 08-26-2011 at 03:55 PM.
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