Glory Bound
03-25-2011, 07:42 PM
My front brakes have not been good from the beginning and I have bled them several times and just switched to Carbotech XP8 pads. While bleeding again after pad installation, I discovered that I was not able to bleed much fluid from the front calipers. I tried bleeding the master cylinder (3/4" Wilwood purchased from Forte's for my MKIII that has a bleed screw on the rear of the cylinder). I got some purging and then it stopped. Front braking power increased a lot. I brought it back home to try bleeding more and then could not get anything else out of the master. Then I could not get anything out of the front calipers. I bought a cheap manual vacuum pump from Advance Auto, thinking that the master was air bound potentially due to an air bubble in the line from the remote reservoir but no luck. I hooked up an air mattress vacuum pump to try to pull the air out but still no luck. Have any others with a Wilwood setup had any better luck with a pressure power bleed setup? If so which one did you use and where did you get it? Any other ideas how to get this setup to work correctly? Thanks in advance.