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Old 12-05-2006, 04:25 PM
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Default wanted.. brake pipe diagram for mk4 escort.

a mate of mine has wilwood 4 pots on the front and cossie rears, with a bias valve, now he has re routed al the brake pipes etc but now he has a shit peddle. its hard until u start the car then it goes soft. he has bled and bled and bled the brakes, he has changed the master cylinder, servo etc and now wants to re pipe it the way it was originally.

can anyone help?
Old 12-05-2006, 04:31 PM
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the only diagram i have is this one ignore the red pipes as there just to show how to bypass your abs

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thats just exactly what i need. thanks mate
Old 12-05-2006, 07:54 PM
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Hi mate. I would not re pipe it. It needs to be a front rear split circuit.

U need the bias valve to get the balance right. I would say it is air in the caliper. I have seen it before - i think u need to alter the height of the car or something when bleeding.

By all means check the piping over, but assuming its a front rear split, then the piping isn't the problem.
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is he bleeding the rears with the wheels on the ground?

if not thats your problem

and are the bleed nipples on the wilwoods at the top ie has he got them on the right sides?
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just now its basically both front calipers are piped together to the same conection on master cylinder and rears are plumbed together through the bias valve from another connection on the master cylinder. does it matter which take off point on the servo goes to front or rear?????????
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u mean master cylinder?

fudgeass

That is only the case with the std bias valves?
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rick, true, i missed that lol

is the mater cylinder not a 3 output thing?

should have one line from M/S to each front

and 1 single split to the rears
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