Medsker
2024 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon 392
- Location
- Herriman, UT
Sorry this is so long. I had an off-road shop install some Teraflex Delta Brakes on my 2019 JLUR in preparation for getting some 39" KM3's for it. I'll keep the shops name out of this for now. After installing the brakes they said they didn't like the way they felt and kept it overnight. When I picked it up the next day they didn't feel great to me so I asked them if they had done the ABS bleed on them and they hadn't. I know they hadn't because my tazer was still married and you can't do the ABS bleed with it married. Anyway I took it back and they said they did the ABS bleed and then re-bled the brakes the traditional way. The brakes still didn't feel hard and would go down.
So I bought a scanner to do it myself. I bled them the regular way twice, ABS bled them twice, and then re-bled them twice the regular way again. This seemed to help a little so I went to Little Moab to try them out. The first steep hill I went up I couldn't make it. I hit the brakes and the pedal slowly sank to the floor and I slowly started to go backwards. Luckily it was very slow or I would have been in trouble. Since then I've bought a second scanner, ABS bled them twice again, and regular bled them 3-4 times.
Fast forward to today I swung into Les Schwab and they said it sounded like the Master Cylinder was bad. I read online if you get to aggressive with a brake bleed it can blow out the seals. Les Schwab doesn't do Master Cylinders so I googled who did Master Cylinders and Tunex came up so I ran down there. The guy said their diagnostic guys are only there Mon-Fri but said it could be the Master Cylinder. Their brake guy has been doing it for 40 years so I made an appointment to take it in on Monday morning to get it looked at.
Does this sound like it could be the Master Cylinder or is just a bunch of incompetent bleeders (including me)? It has 147,000 miles on it. Any other guesses?
I really need this done on Monday as it goes in on Tuesday and Wednesday for the lift and then I'm down in Moab for the rest of the week. Unless it gets fixed we'll take my wife's car down. It's a thing for her work. I get the tires the following week and go to EJS the weeks after that. I know I'm cutting it close on everything.
Thanks in advance!
So I bought a scanner to do it myself. I bled them the regular way twice, ABS bled them twice, and then re-bled them twice the regular way again. This seemed to help a little so I went to Little Moab to try them out. The first steep hill I went up I couldn't make it. I hit the brakes and the pedal slowly sank to the floor and I slowly started to go backwards. Luckily it was very slow or I would have been in trouble. Since then I've bought a second scanner, ABS bled them twice again, and regular bled them 3-4 times.
Fast forward to today I swung into Les Schwab and they said it sounded like the Master Cylinder was bad. I read online if you get to aggressive with a brake bleed it can blow out the seals. Les Schwab doesn't do Master Cylinders so I googled who did Master Cylinders and Tunex came up so I ran down there. The guy said their diagnostic guys are only there Mon-Fri but said it could be the Master Cylinder. Their brake guy has been doing it for 40 years so I made an appointment to take it in on Monday morning to get it looked at.
Does this sound like it could be the Master Cylinder or is just a bunch of incompetent bleeders (including me)? It has 147,000 miles on it. Any other guesses?
I really need this done on Monday as it goes in on Tuesday and Wednesday for the lift and then I'm down in Moab for the rest of the week. Unless it gets fixed we'll take my wife's car down. It's a thing for her work. I get the tires the following week and go to EJS the weeks after that. I know I'm cutting it close on everything.
Thanks in advance!
