Good day! 1995 Dodge Ram 2500 4wd 5.9 l magnum has ABS. After recently having my transmission rebuilt and serviced to keep warranty on rebuild, picked it up from shop and had complete brake failure. Found a leaking wheel cylinder on driver rear and replaced it. Then none of the brakes would bleed, and I used the bottle/vacuum hose method, so I assumed my master cylinder had gone bad. It was old and had a lot of nasty residue so I just replaced. Bench bleed it as recommended by a YouTube channel.lol. Now none of my brakes will breed, I have no brake pressure. It builds a slight amount of pressure when truck is off if you pump em, but none once you start it and no fluid going to the lines. I'm not visually seeing any leak in the booster, and the level of fluid isn't really dropping in new cylinder, as to say I don't think any fluid is even leaving the new cylinder. Any idea what might cause this? I appreciate any and all suggestions. I love you Scotty, I've learned souch from watching your videos and I think your a mechanical genius. Thanks in advance! Love, A girl and her Truck!!
Vehicles with ABS need a scan tool to set the ABS solenoids in the correct position so they can be correctly bled.
Is this something I can purchase myself and that abs will prevent me from getting any fluid to any brakes?
I read of reverse bleeding with a vacuum tool. Would that work? Feeding brake fluid from bleeders on calipers with vacuum pump? I just don't have scan tool and trying to dyi. Thanks
YOU NEED TO GET THE PROPER SCAN TOOL TO DO THIS JOB.