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If you don't understand what I said you should stop playing around with your brake system.
I put it back together, bled it the best i could and will have a brake guy look at it.
 

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Remove the rubber hose from the caliper and see if you can blow air through it freely...If you can't, it's partially blocked.

Remove the hardline from the junction block to the rubber hose at the caliper and try the same process...This will determine whether either of these 2 are causing the problem or whether there is a caliper problem
 
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Remove the rubber hose from the caliper and see if you can blow air through it freely...If you can't, it's partially blocked.

Remove the hardline from the junction block to the rubber hose at the caliper and try the same process...This will determine whether either of these 2 are causing the problem or whether there is a caliper problem
Thanks again for your reply. I think it's the hard line.
 

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Remove the rubber hose from the caliper and see if you can blow air through it freely...If you can't, it's partially blocked.

Remove the hardline from the junction block to the rubber hose at the caliper and try the same process...This will determine whether either of these 2 are causing the problem or whether there is a caliper problem
I undid the hard line where it joins the rubber hose that goes to the caliper on the disk shield. Even there we had to start the car to allow the pedal to be pushed to the floor. Thanks again.
 

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no need to start the car tell the wife push the pedal and hold and when you crack the bleed nipple the pedal should go strait to the floor
 

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no need to start the car tell the wife push the pedal and hold and when you crack the bleed nipple the pedal should go strait to the floor
Thanks for that idea. It never occured to me
 

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Thanks for that idea. It never occured to me
i suck out as most of the old fluid as possible from the m/c and fill with new fluid it makes the process a bit quicker hopefully it a different colour and keep topping it up, left rear takes the most fluid and make the other 3 easy
 
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