Did you put fresh fluid in the master cylinder? I really think you still have air in the lines. To bleed manually, start with the bleeder the greatest distance from the master cylinder, car running, helper pushing down about half way on brake pedal and releasing 3 times, on 3rd time, holding pedal down to half way depressed point while you open the bleeder valve. Repeat until you are sure all air has been flushed out. Check master cyl reservoir level often, because if it gets low and you **** air into the system, you have to start all over again. Go to wheel next greatest distance from master cyl, repeat above, working your way to wheel closest to master cyl last.
Also make sure all connections are tight at master cylinder and everywhere else, otherwise you will still be sucking in air and you won't get a good firm pedal.
Are you having trouble getting a spark plug socket on the plug? Not much room to work? The flickering lights, do they flicker all the time? Which lights, everything, or just dash lights, headlights,?
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Ok the BRAKE BOOSTER is ONLY there to give you pwer assisted, otherwise NO POWER BRAKES. ( not anything to do with the low brake pedal ) Hopefully the junkyard master cylinder was in better shape than your original. AS far a bleedinda system, heres what I do. First with a1998 vehicle, I would go to ALL 4 wheels , OPEN & CLOSE slightly each bleeder to insure none of them are FROZEN, and they do freeze shut ENSUE THE MASTER CYLINDER IS FULL and CLOSED Now with an assistant sitting in the drivers seat, ready to pump the brakes, and ABLE TO HEAR YOU. Go to the furthest wheel from the master which would be the R/R. DONT touch anything yet. Tell the asst too slowly pump the brake pedal till it gets hard, and then HOLD THE PEDAL DOWN ( and dont let up on it until the pedal drops. If the ast lets up before the bleeder is closed you **** in air.Repeat at each wheel til the pedal stays hard. Hope this helps
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Manually. I had alot of air in the rear lines. Pretty sure i got it all out. My problem started with brakes being soft and could hear alot of air by the master cylinder. I put in master cylinder and brake booster from junkyard (maybe a mistake). Now the brakes are completely gone and brake light is on.
That's good to know since it only took me about 5 hours and alot of cussin' to install the brake booster. I will try to bleed the brakes again and let you know if i still have problems. While i have your attention, also having problem changing one of the spark plugs that is located right behind the steering column and all my lights flicker. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time
All the lights flicker, not always but most of the time. While i've been workin on the brakes, i' ve noticed when i hold them down the lights flicker and the engine kind of sputters. As for the spark plugs, you get to them from the side, behind the wheels. I changed all but 1 on the drivers side because it's right behind the steering shaft. Can get a socket on it, but not a ratchet or a swivel. No room.
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