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Bleeding brakes ABS '92 Buick Regal 6 cyl
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wavelength
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Aug 13, 2007, 4:19 PM
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Bleeding brakes ABS '92 Buick Regal 6 cyl
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Got this '92 Regal about a year ago. The brake line to the rear passenger brake rusted through last week.. I replaced the line and had to buy a new calliper for the right passenger side because I stripped the bleeder-that's the last time I use cheap imitation Vise Grips instead of the real thing! 
When taking the wheels off I noticed the rear driver's side-not the side with the broken brake line-had no pad in it. However, the brakes worked well before the brake line broke, so I don't see where that is a problem for now.
I bled the brakes twice. The first time, the car was not running, and the brakes pumped up, but when I turned the engine on the pedal lost pressure.
The second time I bled them-twice-while the engine was running. It pumped up pretty decent. Then I turned the engine off, put all the wheels back on, (I had the entire car up on jack stands for bleeding purposes), touched the brake-and the pedal had virtually no pressure.
I have bled brakes on older cars before-never ABS-and usually bleeding them twice is enough. However, I keep reading on the newer cars-new as in the nineties, lol-that homebrew bleeding is not particularly recommended. However, if you do want to do it yourself, you must bleed them repeatedly over and over to get all the air out-it's not like the older cars.
A) Is this true?
B) If this is not true, where do I go from here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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