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I was waiting for a Stage 1 upgrade kit for my car from StopTech. It wasn't going to arrive until Monday and there was a 300zx meet on Sunday that I wanted to take my car to. Well, I had already drained the fluid and removed the calipers and cleaned them with brake cleaner so I could paint the calipers. So I decide to go buy more fluid to use for Sunday and fill up the resivoir with DOT 3, the recomended fluid.
I had one person bleed the brakes, another pump the brake pedal, and another pour more fluid into the resivoir as it goes down. Well, we bleed all four corners in the correct order and we still don't have any brake pressure. I figured that if I took it out of the garage and put the brakes under pressure, they would start working. They didn't. I pull back into the garage after a good 5 minutes of driving around with no brakes.
The only way the brakes would work is if I pumped them about 10 times quickly and it would build enough pressure up to stop. But, after about 1/2 a second, the brake pressure faded and the pedal would go to the floor again.
Anyways, I'm clueless as to what is wrong and I'm looking for some help. We've tried everything, including bleeding again. So now, we've bled 3 times...2 times to make sure we did it right. I'm clueless...can anyone help me?
I had one person bleed the brakes, another pump the brake pedal, and another pour more fluid into the resivoir as it goes down. Well, we bleed all four corners in the correct order and we still don't have any brake pressure. I figured that if I took it out of the garage and put the brakes under pressure, they would start working. They didn't. I pull back into the garage after a good 5 minutes of driving around with no brakes.
The only way the brakes would work is if I pumped them about 10 times quickly and it would build enough pressure up to stop. But, after about 1/2 a second, the brake pressure faded and the pedal would go to the floor again.
Anyways, I'm clueless as to what is wrong and I'm looking for some help. We've tried everything, including bleeding again. So now, we've bled 3 times...2 times to make sure we did it right. I'm clueless...can anyone help me?