lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
Our daughter has a 2000 Jeep Cherokee.
Her brakes are slightly spongy, in that, if you want them to work, you have to either hit the pedal quickly or pump it.
Her pads, calipers, wheel cylinders and such are in good condition and bled.
My feeling is that it's the master cylinder.
She's away with her sisters for a month; so her jeep is in the yard. I figured that, while she was away, I would do the master cylinder. Given the age of the vehicle and the rusty condition of the brake lines, I figured that it would be a good time to just replace them...all of them. My experience is that the lines themselves aren't that expensive, it's just time and routing.
My gut instinct says that I should just be able to drain the system, take out the master cylinder and lines, install new, crack the bleeders on the four wheels...fill the new master cylinder and lines until all of the bleeders bleed...then perform a typical brake pedal pumping bleed procedure on each wheel.
Am I on the right track?
Her brakes are slightly spongy, in that, if you want them to work, you have to either hit the pedal quickly or pump it.
Her pads, calipers, wheel cylinders and such are in good condition and bled.
My feeling is that it's the master cylinder.
She's away with her sisters for a month; so her jeep is in the yard. I figured that, while she was away, I would do the master cylinder. Given the age of the vehicle and the rusty condition of the brake lines, I figured that it would be a good time to just replace them...all of them. My experience is that the lines themselves aren't that expensive, it's just time and routing.
My gut instinct says that I should just be able to drain the system, take out the master cylinder and lines, install new, crack the bleeders on the four wheels...fill the new master cylinder and lines until all of the bleeders bleed...then perform a typical brake pedal pumping bleed procedure on each wheel.
Am I on the right track?