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Old 10-17-2022, 05:30 PM
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I can't believe I need to say it, but DO NOT re-use the brake fluid.

I struggled with that too, but having run way to many quarts through it from shop to shop... I was pretty sure any aged fluid was gone and I ran it back through a micro paint filter before refilling the Motive and pushing it again. I did not however reuse the fluid caliper to caliper... call me superstitious but that seemed like an invitation for issues.


I know, I know... it all mixed in the MC anyway, but that's not what I told myself while I was doing it


Lets see how that pedal holds over this week and then I'll know if I've screwed myself or not, fingers crossed!
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Old 10-17-2022, 05:34 PM
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Well, the 993 has a known issue with sludge in the ABS unit. I'd be loath to recommend the alcohol flush out without a specific reason.

Heard that, I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but pedal was awesome all day today, still just 90% ish of what I'm used to in it, but as 80stech said, some good panic stops on loose roads and some driving, letting the system get hot and cold, should push anything left around and, fingers crossed, I should be able to get it back to 99\100% this weekend - or that's my goal anyway.


I'm hoping that by Saturday that the - just blow it up - has worn off and I'm more motivated to finish the job once and for all and put this trauma behind me.
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Just found this and wondered if the pre-charge cycles (last post) he was getting could have shown what line your problem came from?



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Just found this and wondered if the pre-charge cycles (last post) he was getting could have shown what line your problem came from?



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Actually an interesting post, I may see if I can get any live data on the individual circuits, would be interesting to see if I can read pressure and what each operates at.


Ha... now this is going to drive me crazy wondering, I'm stuck out of town until the weekend after next... I'll check that out when I'm home and report back, I'm curious now.
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Actually an interesting post, I may see if I can get any live data on the individual circuits, would be interesting to see if I can read pressure and what each operates at.


Ha... now this is going to drive me crazy wondering, I'm stuck out of town until the weekend after next... I'll check that out when I'm home and report back, I'm curious now.
Driving you crazy?

My work here is done..

I'd be interested in what you find though.

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Driving you crazy?

My work here is done..


I'd be interested in what you find though.
Sounds like my wife. She loves to pull the pin on a rhetorical grenade and prance out of the room...
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Sounds like my wife. She loves to pull the pin on a rhetorical grenade and prance out of the room...
I resemble that remark!! Except for the "prancing" part...

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Sadly by the time I got back the wife had moved into the X... Long story but we parted company with her Enclave and she got an Audi A4 in LOOK AT ME RED with black tinted windows and then, while I was out of town she was getting gas and had someone make some comments to her and then it happened again at work; to which she decided "the car is just too much attention AND it's too little for me I want an SUV back - I am not driving it anymore"...


The good news - it seems the pedal is fine (to her), she has been driving it, it isn't totaled (thank God) and she hasn't said a single word about the brakes being of any concern to her, and believe me, she can complain about car "things" that bother her


Basically a long winded way of saying I haven't yet gotten back into it to perform any additional testing... brakes seem to be working, I've driven it a couple of times (when she's let me) and they work wonderfully, but I still think I could make them better... may be just me but I swear they're not the same since.


I have definitely filed this away in the back of my brain as a "when I'm back in there next", but I think until I get rid of this Audi and get her back into something she's comfortable driving, I may not see it again anytime soon.
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Sadly by the time I got back the wife had moved into the X... Long story but we parted company with her Enclave and she got an Audi A4 in LOOK AT ME RED with black tinted windows and then, while I was out of town she was getting gas and had someone make some comments to her and then it happened again at work; to which she decided "the car is just too much attention AND it's too little for me I want an SUV back - I am not driving it anymore"...


The good news - it seems the pedal is fine (to her), she has been driving it, it isn't totaled (thank God) and she hasn't said a single word about the brakes being of any concern to her, and believe me, she can complain about car "things" that bother her


Basically a long winded way of saying I haven't yet gotten back into it to perform any additional testing... brakes seem to be working, I've driven it a couple of times (when she's let me) and they work wonderfully, but I still think I could make them better... may be just me but I swear they're not the same since.


I have definitely filed this away in the back of my brain as a "when I'm back in there next", but I think until I get rid of this Audi and get her back into something she's comfortable driving, I may not see it again anytime soon.
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I too had a heck of a time bleeding my E53's brakes. It was as if somehow air was being re-introduced to the system. After going through several liters of fluid and trying everything I could think of, I got them to maybe 80% and called it good. I hoped that driving it for a while and then bleeding again might do it, but I haven't had a chance in months as my adult son has been driving it as his DD for most of this year.

The only thing I didn't try from above is activating only one ABS solenoid at a time. I may give that a try when I get the next chance.

Somehow it's comforting just to know I'm not the only one!

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