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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: mattyswift on 12 January 2008, 22:07

Title: help please on brakes
Post by: mattyswift on 12 January 2008, 22:07

i have changed the brake fluid on my 8v gti and i used the easy bleed and closed the comp valve. the problem is the pedal needs pumping to get a good brake and when i let it off it goes back to being worse. do you think its still air in the system as i kept bleeding it and it got abit better. someone said it might be the master clylnder but the brake is working great once pumped.

help please

Title: Re: help please on brakes
Post by: saul79 on 13 January 2008, 10:38

doesnt the comp valve need to be open :smiley:

Title: Re: help please on brakes
Post by: Diamond Hell on 13 January 2008, 10:54

Get the compensator valve open and then you might need to spend another few minutes with a hose on the bleed nipple and an accomplice pumping the pedal, rather than using the Ezibleed. 

I was amazed at the amount of air that came out and the amount of pumping and Ezibleeding it took to get the air out when I replaced a compensator valve recently.