Air In ABS controller?

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signatureAEI
Posts: 7
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:14 am
Car: 1999 Maxima GLE

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hey guys. First, a little info about my car.99 maxima GLE. bone stocktonight i was changing the rear pads on my 99 max. while i was bleeding the lines i got distracted and didn't keep an eye on fluid in my master cylinder. while my buddy was pumping the brakes i ran the master cyl. out of fluid. i had the cap off to let pressure off when compressing the pistons, so air definitely got in the lines. i caught it pretty quickly and filled it back up, but by it was already empty. now when i pump the brakes it builds up pressure and the a few seconds later , the pedal goes soft again. Is there any way to tell if air made it to the abs controller? and how do i go about bleeding it out of the abs cont? iam going to rebleed the lines this afternoon but i've never had to do anything from the abs and back. Any help would be greatly appreciated....


mister2nr
Posts: 58
Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:27 pm

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well you could try to gravity bleed it if your by yourself. keep an eye on the level though. if your not sure what gravity bleeding is you crack the bleeder open and wait till fluid runs out best thing to do is put a hose on the end of the bleeder and direct it into a bottle so it does not go all over the place.


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