I installed the Granada front brakes on my Mercury and I don’t get any front brakes out of them. I’ve bled with my hand vacuum pump and I bled with my wife in the car, pedal will get firm but I can jack up the car and spin the tire with brake applied and nothing. Is there something I might be missing? bleeders are getting fluid, I’m not seeing air. i bench bled the master.
I’m going to try this tomorrow, I think you’re correct. My bleeders are absolutely pointing straight up. Thank you very very much, I’ll report back with the findings.
I saw this on another forum, honestly I’d think I’d get enough action to stop the disc with me turning by hand but I’m going to try…
UPDATE! yes, the caliper swapped worked perfect and to be sure there’s no confusion the bleeders have to point sort of rearward. i bleed them with my hand vac pump and everything works as designed maybe a little too good, lol going to take some getting used to on my end Thanks allot @48ford
I’ll guarantee the bleeders should be rearward facing. Maybe not on every Granada caliper but these for sure.
Glad the problem was solved. When you say they work “too good” you may have mismatch with the pedal ratio to the MC piston diameter if you also added vacuum ***ist. If your car had no power as built the pedal ratio is sometimes different or a larger diameter MC used to compensate for the vacuum ***isting your foot. Most don’t realize this or if rear brakes are changed their wheel cylinders are a different diameter if power or no power brakes.
I know what you say to be fact, but I don’t think it’s an issue here, it’s just that the brakes work much better than they used to and it took me a little bit of driving to get used to, not having to mash the pedal with the same force as non power drums.
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