MitchF150 wrote:
Peeps, I don't have to look up anything and I'm not giving out ANY misinformation... All I know is when I open a bleeder valve on any vehicle I bleed the brakes on, the pedal goes to the floor.. PERIOD... I've never had a brake failure while on the road, so I can't say one way or the other on that..
If indeed the system will apply any pressure to the unaffected system that does not have a leak on it that's NOT what I'm saying... I'm just saying that when I open a single line, the pedal goes to the floor and that's how you BLEED your brakes.. ;)
Sorry I'm not getting what you are trying to say here, but you are not getting what I'm trying to say either, so there.. ;)
Mitch
So are you saying that if you open a bleeder on a brake system and drive the vehicle on the road you will have "no" brakes what so ever?
BTW a brake pedal does not go all the way to the floor unless both systems are compromised. What happens is the pedal will go way down until the second piston is contacted and at that time the secondary system will stop the truck. This is exactly what happen to the OP.
Look at the 3rd diagram. A pedal will never contact the floor unless both systems are damaged. Open a bleeder an press on the pedal as hard as you want. The pedal will never contact the floor because it will pressurize the secondary system and that happens before the pedal hit the rug.
The bottom line of the bottom line is this. Every single vehicle made or imported into the US has a redundant brake system, by law, since the mid 70's.
There is a huge difference between no brakes and some brakes.
