[Shotimes] brakes funny after new pads - kinda long

[Leigh Smith]

Spongy brakes = air or moisture.
bleed them again.
Lee


Ron DeReus wrote:

>Ok, I got new PFCM pads installed on all 4 corners this week - 6014's front
>and 6104's rear; found a couple frozen sliders I fixed, too.  Surfaced all
>the rotors; none needed replaced, I'm guessing they're factory still.  Never
>cracked a bleeder - when compressing the caliper pistons, just let it go
>back to the master cylinder.
>
>Took it out for a drive, and it acts like I have no power assist now- spongy
>until it the brakes start to work, but then I can stand on them for all I'm
>worth and not get them to lock up OR get the ABS to kick in.  I thought
>maybe they needed bedded in, so I did about four 60-0 stops until I started
>to smell them, drove several miles back home to allow them to cool, and
>parked it for the night.  But 3 days of normal driving later, they still
>don't seem right.  I had some other guys at work drive it, and one of them
>did get the brakes to lockup, and he thinks the ABS computer needs reset,
>like a Bronco or something he used to have.  How do I do this?  I did try to
>dump the normal computer while doing the brakes (battery out, pressed on the
>brake pedal for a minute or so to dump the memory.)
>
>I have ATE brake fluid on the way from Raceshopper, so we will be flushing
>and bleeding the system this week if this is all I need.
>
>TIA
>
>Ron DeReus
>95MTX
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