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Properly Bleeding Your Brake System

Properly Bleeding Your Brake System

The hydraulic brake system of your car or truck is a sealed system. Whenever you unseal it or replace a part, you will have to bleed air out of it. Air bubbles in the lines mean a spongey pedal and poor brake performance. Old fluid also degrades with time and must be flushed for high performance driving. Here's how...

Troubleshooting - Tandem Master Cylinder with No Fluid/No Pressure to the Rear

Common complaints to our tech line involve no pressure to the rear brake lines. With a dual circuit/tandem M/C this issue has a common cause - the rear piston not fully returning to its proper resting position. Customers often think they have a defective M/C but that’s not it. For the M/C to build pressure properly, the piston's primary seal must retract past the compensating port, and the rear of the piston rest on the snap ring.

Troubleshooting - Tandem Master Cylinder with No Fluid/No Pressure to the Rear
How to Bench Bleed a Master Cylinder

How to Bench Bleed a Master Cylinder

Wilwood shows how to achieve a successful bench bleed when installing a tandem master cylinder.