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brakes crap after caliper replacement

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Range Rover Blues:
Sometimes I find they improve if you bleed them again once you've used them, air can get trapped inside calliper pistons or in kinks in the pipes.  Also with them being new you can bleed the piston/calliper by pushing the piston back in wit the bleed nipple open.

When I ran my Cavalier I HAD to bleed the brakes like that whenever I changed the pads, for some reason the brakes went spongy if I didn't :undecided:

But if you've got used to seized pistons then TBH you will hate the feel of new callipers, until the seals start to harden you will get a lot of piston pull-back giving you a long pedal when you next apply the brake.

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