RoseyEm2

I have a 2002 civic 5spd and the brake pedal goes down to the floor but it still stops with no problems. I drove it like this for 11k miles and the brakes haven't gave me a problem the brake pedal is just soft. I tried bleeding the brakes many times but it the same soft brake pedal. It's not normal for sure but I have no idea why it's like that. I read some forums online and they said something about a check valve? Btw no brake fluid leaks out. It's all dry. No fluid leaks on the inside and no fluid leaks in the engine bay. Anyone can tell me what it is?

pjb3

Have you checked the adjustment of the rear brakes? Drum brakes have springs that pull the shoes back away from the drum. As the pads wear the adjusters should keep the pads close to the drum but if they don't then there is more travel in the brake pedal.
A quick test is to step on the brakes while the parking brake is engaged since it will push the pads against the drums and remove any travel.

ezone

When did this problem start? Did someone install calipers upside down (bleeders on the bottom)?


I'd find a spot with loose gravel, drive into it about 5 MPH....stab the brake pedal to make it skid to a stop.
Jump out and look:
See if two wheels did NOT make skid marks. (This check can eliminate half of the system as suspect)

RoseyEm2

Well I got the car in December and I haven't really drove it cause I didn't have my license but until I started driving I started to see it was soft. That was in August. I've been driving with the car ever since like that and if I brake hard enough then the passsenger side locks first.

RoseyEm2

I did drum brakes recently and I bled them... I'm.nkt sure if I did the drum brakes wrong but it was like.this even before I did the drum brakes

sdaidoji

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what is your procedure for bleeding?

there was a guy that sold his car because he could not get the brakes to work, then saw the guy he sold the car a few months later and asked how it was doing - he said it was great, all he had do to was to bleed the brakes...

have a friend that knows and work on cars watch your procedure - I don't know what that guy was doing wrong, but he was doing something wrong.

RoseyEm2

Well I pump both of the pedals. First it's passenger rear, then driver side rear then passenger side front and the driver side front. Brake fluid comes clear all times.