Spent what turned out to be all of last night (all AM hours till 6am) adjusting the push-rod, cleaning my mas (then a wonderful fight at the very end with the connector/harness that refused to stay clipped together), and finally bleeding the brakes.
I started bleeding without the car on cause I have no ABS, but later I realized the booster makes it hard for you. I guess I wasn't thinking though and could've pulled the vac line off the booster instead of starting the car. That would've been a much better way since I had the garage all nice and A/C'd and now we're getting our wonderful 80%+ humidity days and nights here. I finally realized that due to not having a good seal between the bleeder hose and the bleeder valve I was getting on the spot air coming into the line so I'd try to press the bleeder hose as hard as I could till all I saw was tiny tiny tiny bubbles to no bubbles. That was the best I could get it.
After all that time I think the brakes are going to work wonderfully as just pulling back and forth in the garage it now seems to have that DEAD stop stopping power that I have been missing for way too long. I could not however go take it for a test drive yet as my broke ass van is parked behind the garage on ramps and today I have to take an exhaust pipe in somewhere for a custom weld job. It is probably better I drive it later today anyway because I have not had any sleep.
I hope cleaning the MAS does something GOOD. It did not look at all dirty (used flashlight) like the one on my van did. Though the Mitsu one seems to be designed such that debris would not touch/hit the element. We'll see. Going to sleep now at 7 AM !!!!
OH yes how could I forget...... BLESS MY SISTER FOR HELPING ME BLEED THE BRAKES SINCE FOR WHATEVER REASON THE SPEED BLEEDER GODS HAVE CHOSEN TO OPT ME OUT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR USING THEM!!! My sister was a huge help. The speed bleeders I ordered from 3SX simply got their threads ruined on the new calipers. I have a feeling though that whoever remanned these calipers screwed up the rethreading. BLESS MY SISTER! I should treat her out to eat!
NIght... morning... good day... however you wanna look at it.
