Expert Insights Fixing Brakes that Go to the Floor A Journey of Discovery

It's not uncommon for the seals inside the Master Cylinder to get damaged if the brake pedal is depress or pushed ALL the way to the floor while ... Air in the system. Make sure you are bleeding them in the proper order and that the reservoir doesn't go empty. If it does you end up with air ... Check the master cylinder fluid level. If not, your master cylinder went south. If there was, pull ALL of your wheels and check wheel cylinders. The brake pedal still slowly goes to the floor. It is drivable and stops great, but at a stop light I need to let up and step on the brake pedal a couple of ... I have manually bled the brakes and have good fluid coming out at all 4 corners with no air or bubbles but the brake pedal is going to the floor with little ... The brake pedal goes all the way to the floor. There was brake fluid in the rear brake fluid reservoir, but not the front. Where do you suggest I start ... Pedal going to floor typically sounds like a master cylinder problem. You can pump up the pedal and get a hard pedal. The brake pedal slowly going to the floor when i hit the brakes. It doesnt do it all the time, but i would say every 6 or 7 times the brakes are applied. Look for fluid leaks at the hoses and calipers or wheel cylinders, and make sure the brakes are mechanically moving as they should when the pedal is pressed. We'll learn why we might have a mushy brake pedal when the motor is running and how to fix it so we can have full power brakes in this post.