When I drive the Esc the first touch of the brake pedal seems to drop an inch.. then its ok.. Whats that all about? bleeding prob?

The pedal feels hard in general not sure if thats a good thing or not?

AP 6pots btw

 

pad knock off?

 

As above or sticky sliders.
tabetha

 

Whats that mean guys

 

sticky sliders?on ap calipers that dont have sliders?

 

who said the problems with the front? (more than likely is)

 

So whats pad knock off?

 

if a disk isnt running true, and the pads are being pushd (knocked) back a little bit

 

Bought some stolen pads Paul ?

Could be related to m/c size now needing to push more fluid

 

sticking rear sliders,or even fronts for that matter would not create these symptoms though would they?
particularly if ony standard rears but 6 pots fronts,why there are so many folk on here at the moment giving folk false or missleading advice is beyond me!

 

What can be done to rectify that?

 

exactly,common cause on ap kits modified on to standard uprights is the disc running out of true and instead of the pad moving of fractionally when the peddle isnt pressed they get "knocked" back further by the disc not running true,the same thing happens if you go over a very bumpy section of road,

 

use group A uprights so your caliper and disc are bolted on properly,

or what is done on most group N rally cars is stronger springs behind the pistons,evo's suffer really badly from this even on standard calipers.

 

you are right,, you wouldnt get free play in the pedal from it


clock to see how true your disks are running! also do your brakes judder under hard braking?

 

play in wheel bearing,,,

and bleed fuck out of them,, just incase

 

TBH they are perfect other then that.. I've done less then 1k miles on them. It feels like fluid movement on the pedal rather then a click.

Maybe its where I'm used to my Beemers brakes and these AP's bite a lot earlier?

Also I did bleed my front brakes recently but not the rears could that be related?

 

you lazy man,, you can bleed the rears without taking a wheel off

 

This is what it was in mine about a year ago when I had the smae problem

JJ

 

does the car still have to be level to bleed the brakes ..

i had the same issues with my old d reg rsturbo ..

if you jack the car up to bleed the brakes it wont work ..

something about load compensator issues

the car has to be flat level to bleed the brakes ..