brakes doing me nut!!!!!!!!!!!

[jaywalker]

Right im really having grief at the moment with my car everything seems to be going wrong, i have no got no brakes, i have had brand new rear drums, with cylinders & shoes fitted bled the brakes and nothing, handbrake was there but pedal went to the floor, so i bled the sytem as per haynes, still nothing, so i fitted another master cylinder, bled the system again today and still nothing:mad: , so is there something im doing wrong, i pulled off the pipe to the servo and there is suction there so whats wrong, please any advice will be mucho appreciated, this car is really doing my head in now, press the brake pedal and the digis go dim & theres no rev counter?, pass. side central locking decided to do 1, alarm had to be replaced last week, need a new afm pipe as thats split.. someone up there doesnt like me nova:cry:

[djbrowney]

when bleeding the breaks are you starting with the one furthest away from the survo being the drivers rear ???

[jaywalker]

yes i am

[Gaz1300SR]

Sure there is no leak in the servo/pipes anywhere?

[pikey1986]

check the mounting faces on the brake pipes are the right way round

[jaywalker]

i have no leaks that i can see anywhere, nor fluid, would it be possible that the master cylinder i had origanlly was fine, and it was the servo thats gone?

[16v Nova Kev]

check your calipers are on the right way round i.e bleed nip's to the top i put mine on wrong side and could not get a pedal

[yayoboy]

the servo only assists the breaking, i think you should still have the 'feel' even if your servo was gone? also you will need to prime the m/c to get air out of it, best way to do it is off the car, some old pipes connected to the m/c ports, going into a tub, and then just operate the m/c push rod by hand, topping up the fluid as you go untill you get no air, also try and find a syringe (not a heroin one lol) and use it to pump fluid through the lines via the bleed nipples, to prime them aswell, ive always used that technique and its never let me down....

[Royston]

Buy a Gunsons Easybleed, and push the fluid through, no need to pump bedal, just bleed!

Get a syringe to remove the excess fluid from the master cylinder when done.

[jaywalker]

thanks guys mates dads got 1 of those gunsons Easybleeds, so gonna try that, then hopefully thats another tick off the list, might5 eventually get the valve back on the road this year lol;-)