Blind_Shooter

i know i dont post here very often but i dont know who else to ask at this point. my car is to low to be towed, AAA sent 3 trucks out and none of them were willing to touch it.

the other day i go to leave a friends house in the morning and the brakes were fine the night before. when i go to leave i have barely any brake pressure. i added more fluid and tried to bleed the brakes. started at the back right, then back left. when i got to the front left, only air was coming out and almost no fluid, just bubbling a lot. tried to do the front right but rounded off the bleeder valve, damn thing is stuck. i had enough brake pressure to drive before bleeding them, now i have none. no idea what to do and i dont know any mechanics in my area.

any help is appreciated azine

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

I had this issue twice, both my rear calipers went independently and needed replaced, sounds like you either have a brake fluid leak in the line on the front, or the caliper itself is leaking

Blind_Shooter

there are no fluids anywhere on the car. but the night it happened there did seem to be a little fluid on the front right brake?? master cylinder maybe or something else??

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

Could be the slave cylinder, those are known to go bad on CL's, but if it's just the one caliper that has air coming out, I would point to that

Blind_Shooter

yea it happened suddenly, overnight. the brake light did come on a few days prior to that though before it happened but i did experience any loss in brake pressure at all till the one morning. any way i can get some brake pressure back in it so i can at least drive it myself to the shop? maybe rebleed the brakes?

Blind_Shooter

i didnt know there was a slave cylinder for the brakes. only for the clutch and mines an auto. then again i know nothing about brakes at all.

i wasnt able to bleed the last front right brake as the damn thing was stuck on there pretty well. but the front left had a lot of air and the front right seemed to have been leaking a little bit.....any clue what that means. maybe just the front right is fucked up bad enough its screwing with the front left?

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

That could be, if you noticed fluid leaking from the front right I would look into replacing that as well as the line, I thought you said the front left was leaking and had air. If the right appeared to be leaking, that most likely is your problem

DaInFaMMuS1

I concur with this statement. Start with where the leak appears to be and work from there.

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

shooter, just to clarify, I thought you had a stick, I don't believe the autos have a slave

Eband27

Brakes don't have slaves, either auto or manual. The slave only applies to the clutch.

Try putting a cardboard under your car, and sit and apply brake pressure, see if you have a sop appearing on the cardboard. If so, you know where to look. Because a leak also means it can suck air in.

TAco23

Since the brake line was on, I am afraid it was safe to say that you had low to zero brake fluid in the res. If you have no brake fluid that means you have a leak. No by using your brakes with what is probably a lot of air in the lines you will lose pressure and make the leak worse. You need to identify where the leak is. Then we can move onto helping you repair it.