I tried to flush out the brake lines on for the first time in my two years owning the car. When I open the reservoir I notived some green goop on the diaphram, the filter, and the top of the reservoir. I took it off the diaphram and filter, it was sticky. After seeing the new brake fluid, I realized that mine was old, it was a brown/honey color. Car is an 03 so maybe the previous owner never changed it.
First time using a vacuum pump and my first and second attemp just let air into the lines. I went to the old two person method. First try I got air, second I got some fluid. I tried about 3-4 times and just got air.
At that point my brakes were spongy and there was an obvious difference. I got an exerience guy to help me and he told me I needed a new master cylinder. Only one of the brake circuits was working leaving me with no brakes on the front left and rear right. He also told me that I may have had some fluid contamination bacause the diaphram on the reservoir seems to be expanded (I don't know what a new one looks like so it might be normal, I'll try to get a new one on Monday).
Could anyone tell me what caused the failure. Was it the air I let I the system? Could some of that green goop have gotten in? Did I pump the pedal too deep killing the seal in the MC (would that kill all brakes or just two)? I got the MC replaced and it now works better than before (pedal doesn't have to travel so much to stop the car). I wanted to bring this up to prevent this from happening to others! <-- ie it killed my weekend and left me $150 poorer.
Any input helps!
First time using a vacuum pump and my first and second attemp just let air into the lines. I went to the old two person method. First try I got air, second I got some fluid. I tried about 3-4 times and just got air.
At that point my brakes were spongy and there was an obvious difference. I got an exerience guy to help me and he told me I needed a new master cylinder. Only one of the brake circuits was working leaving me with no brakes on the front left and rear right. He also told me that I may have had some fluid contamination bacause the diaphram on the reservoir seems to be expanded (I don't know what a new one looks like so it might be normal, I'll try to get a new one on Monday).
Could anyone tell me what caused the failure. Was it the air I let I the system? Could some of that green goop have gotten in? Did I pump the pedal too deep killing the seal in the MC (would that kill all brakes or just two)? I got the MC replaced and it now works better than before (pedal doesn't have to travel so much to stop the car). I wanted to bring this up to prevent this from happening to others! <-- ie it killed my weekend and left me $150 poorer.
Any input helps!