Thread: No brakes, help!

So I pulled my car out of storage yesterday and I've got no brakes... kinda.

I can pump the pedal a few times and get pressure enough to stop and it got me home from the place I store it, but now I have to DD it and its far from safe.

I bled the lines and got no air out of them and the fluid reservoir is full, but still the pedal is mush until its pumped.

Suggestions?

in what sequence are u bleeding your brakes?

Does the fluid look clean?

Sounds like it's time for a new master cylinder.

Yeah, MC is what I was thinking too.

I bled rears because they both occasionally dripped out of a seal where the mechanical lever actuates the piston.

Fluid is clean, no air.


This sucks if it is the MC because I was going to do that when I had more time and upgrade the rears and swap in an Altima MC.

Anyone got a cheap Nabco NX non-abs master cylinder for sale?

Junk yard for the brakes, and a brand new Altima MC is about $100-125. I think that's what I paid for mine. If it's just the brakes, you can get by without the MC. I have yet to install the MC on my B13 and I have the full brake upgrade on mine. It works fine for me. I'd try the brakes first, and then bleed them.