[Vwdiesel] Not Deisel, just brake bleeding hell on a VW bug question

[Bryan Belman]

Hi all, I work on this ladies 72 super beetle from time to time, 95% rust free, 
like working on history because so much of the car is still good.
anyway, I have a 20 hour brake story, what am I doing wrong.

starts out with soft to no brakes, OK, I can fix that for you.
I have a mighty vac.
It is not like the peddle will pump up, it just had little braking.
Tried to vac. some fluid out of the lines, got very little and no air.
ordered new master as this one was orig.
 * Super beetle master cyl. is different, did not know that.

Dropped spacer sleeve into the abiss in the body, 1 hour tired to get it, 
removed peddle assm. 2 hours later I had cut a new one from similar pipe stock.

Put new master in, did not bench bleed it.

nothing, could get very little suction with my might vac. to get good flow of 
fluid from brake res. with fresh fluid in it.
tried pumping, nothing, no peddle would come up even after pumping 20-30 times.

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I did press ALL THE WAY DOWN at times, maybe I blew it out here as you are Never 
supposed to press it all the way?
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Took master off again to bench press after finding this great web sight. Rob and 
Dave's Aircooled sight http://www.vw-resource.com/

I pumped it in a can of brake fluid and left it sit for 3 days while I was away 
on a vw weekend.
came home, put it back in on Monday night, nothing, no change.
I would get just enough pressure to stop the wheels from spinning but still 
would get little flow with mighty vac and I would things were looking better in 
the back, as soon as I would open the front Rt. side, nothing, could no longer 
get enough to stop the wheels from spinning.

Then went back to old fashion way, tried and true.
My wife would pump the brake 7-10 times, hold it in, I would open the bleeder to 
hose and clear bottle 1/2 full of fluid.  Close it, she lets up on the peddle 
and pumps again.  OK on the back, when I get up front, nothing, I lose all 
ground on getting any peddle pressure.

So, back to square 1.
Master cyl is out.
I rent a brake pressure bleeder from Advance Auto Parts for FREE.  It works as a 
might vac OR you can fill the container on it and PUSH the fluid into the system 
with like 10psi, it even has a gauge.  So, I do this to each circuit, each wheel 
and I have a good steam of clean fluid coming out of each bleeder, 1 by 1.

Today I will get a Replacement super beetle master, but TRW brand, not the KMM 
brand I got before.
I Will bench bleed the new master cyl. out of the box before putting it on the 
car, yes.

Any suggestions before I pull the trigger.  I can't charge her for more then 
like 6 hours of this ordeal.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


 Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
04 Jetta Wagon TDI PD, 100hp, 5sp -- running :)
92 Jetta 1.6 Eco-Turbo Diesel -- running :}
82 Diesel Westy 1.9NA -- running :)
70 Type 1 stock Beetle -- Not running :(