F-150 Soft brake pedal - fixed!!!

Good deal!! And, thanks for the feedback. All too often there is no feedback which also helps others.

Lugnut

||Hi folks, || ||Thanks to all of you who offered suggestions on my brake problem. It turned ||out to be a defective master cylinder and a re-built master cylinder with ||the exact same problem. My first clue was the new MC failed the bench bleed ||process. They replaced under warranty and the second re-built MC passed the ||bench bleed process just fine. My brother helped me to bleed all the lines ||and it is finally back on the road. || ||Several people commented on the high failure rate of re-built MCs and now ||I'm a believer too. It was a $100 difference in price but what a hassle.

The company I work for sells Cardone reman master cyclinders, as well as new units from a major manufacturer who also supplies OEM. I can tell you our defect rate on the remans is lower than on the new units, by a small amount. I have run a Cardone reman mastercylinder on my road racing RX7 since I put in on the track in 2000. Never a problem braking repeatedy from 110+

Texas Parts Guy

After going thru three 'remans' on our 84 B-350 in a week, we went with a new unit

end of problem

I think the re-manners fail to check for pitting in the bores....just hone it and put new parts in

Well, there are "Remanufacturers" and there are "Rebuilders".

The former will sleeve a bad core with a steel or SS sleeve. If that is not possible, they will buy new units and sell for remans, until the core supply comes back. The latter will hone a cylinder and kit it.

Cardone is the only remanufcturer with national distribution that I know of.

There are quite a few regi||> Thanks to all of you who offered suggestions on my brake problem. It ||turned ||> out to be a defective master cylinder and a re-built master cylinder with ||> the exact same problem. My first clue was the new MC failed the bench ||bleed ||> process. They replaced under warranty and the second re-built MC passed ||the ||> bench bleed process just fine. My brother helped me to bleed all the ||lines ||> and it is finally back on the road. ||>

||> Several people commented on the high failure rate of re-built MCs and now ||> I'm a believer too. It was a $100 difference in price but what a hassle. ||>

||> Thanks again for all your suggestions. ||>

||> Dave ||>

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Texas Parts Guy

It seems that you took great pains exclude that bit of information in your previous thread until your very last post. I wonder why? H