3rd Actuator Replacement -- Linear Valve Offset Issue and Strange Brake Noises

Whoa whoa whoa whoa here hold on a second You cannot mix up the lines going to the break actuator those metal lines with those barrel fittings on them they're using a 10 mm break wrench or you should be I don't think you you'd be one hell of a person to be mixing those up or putting them in the wrong holes they generally won't reach If you're bending those lines enough to be doing that We have a real problem Houston. When you're undoing this business you are taking the clamp that holds all what is it five of the brake lines as they go around under the main rubber feed line that feeds the actuator with brake fluid from the metal tube on the firewall? As all the brake lines come out of the actuator they curve around the side forward edge of the actuator and they're in this clamp That's supposed to be unbolted so that when you undo all the lines you can bend all five of the lines are four of the lines at one time away from the actuator so you can pull the whole bracket and actuator out so I'm not sure how you're going to mix the lines up. The groaning noise or the banging noise that you hear should be over on the right side fender well where that other little pump looking thingy is whatever that is I don't know don't care That's where my banging usually comes from when that's happening and I don't think it's because of a bad actuator or any of that it seems to be air or something not pumping right to the back so usually when the relays are back in I have some one sit in the car and hold the pedal down while I open up the rear fittings one at a time so that the electric pump can pump brake fluid through the rear. And I hope we're pumping 30 times in 30 seconds for the internal valve bleeding of the actuator but that's no matter either when you're doing that pumping at the end like say it 25 strokes all of a sudden the pedal gets rock hard You almost can't pump it Is this happening?

 

The lines that go into the side of the actuator that are coming up across the side and the front of the actuator which is aimed towards the passenger side of the car every one of those lines it would be tricky to even if you had those removed when you lay them up to where they're going to go My god my friend it's pretty quick to see this doesn't go here this one goes there looking at another car a picture of your lines connected as the assembly before it was disassembled would have saved you from all of that mess so you've had to unbend these lines and rearticulate the bends in the lines holey cow