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Old 05-20-2025, 07:42 PM   #1
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Exclamation Braking Issue

Not Fbody but for the 95 Impala.
When I bought the car, the pedal would randomly drop pretty low. Replaced the master, twice, replaced the booster, I've bled the thing numerous times. I had the proportioning valve apart and it's clean as can be. ABS works fine.
Still getting the same results, and can't pinpoint a condition causing it to happen, totally at random hit the brakes and it's either fine or sinks almost to the floor. Doesn't pull, stops straight as can be.

I did notice very minor seepage today where the plastic tank sits on the master? But the problem has existed with 3 different masters lol.

I'm stumped.
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Have you ever had the brakes bled with the ABS pump run? Might be random pockets of air in the ABS pump/block.
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Old 05-28-2025, 06:26 AM   #3
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Yea that's what I'm thinking, but every search turns up that there is no bleed procedure for it, just says to bleed system normally. I took the car out in the rain for ABS testing purposes and it does work lol.
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