Granturismo Brake bleed problem??

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

So I painted my calipers while doing SS brake lines when doing my suspension and forgot about it and the res ran bone dry dripping out of the hard lines when I have the calipers and lines off for over a week. using my pressure bleeder I have run 2 full bottles of fluid thru the right rear, left rear right front left front in multiple laps around the car like Ive done dozens of times on my race cars and have 8 diff hoses and bottles at each corner so running around is no problem to constantly do it.... I also tap all the lines and hit the calipers to facillitate disturbing the bubbles loose....


HOWEVER......... its still spewing tons of micro bubbles especially out the longest line, the right rear inside and outside of the caliper. it would only make sense that there is a leak somewhere with i checked and there isn't, i cleaned everything to let sit overnight just incase but the other more concerning possibility is the abs pump......


I dont know what to do now at this point, I've got absolutely no brake pedal at this point and no electronics.... also it is displaying suspension warning still after 10+ ignition cycles I thought it would have gone away by now since having all the EDC wires removed....



Thoughts?

 

[CatmanV2]

I think you need an SD2 for bleeding the ABS

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[voicey]

We (Chiswick) once had a modern Jag in for brake caliper refurbishment - I told the tech who took the calipers off to clamp the brake lines but they thought they knew better and zip tied plastic bags over the ends. This was a Friday. Needless to say on Monday morning all the brake fluid that was in the car was on the floor. It was an absolute nightmare to bleed out and required the diagnostic tool. Took a couple of days of trying.

You will have air everywhere and you've just got to keep bleeding and bleeding until it's gone. Simply using a pressure bleeder isn't going to cut it - you'll need to crack off the unions at different places. Once you're happy most of the air is out of the master cylinder and lines then run the bleed sequence using the SD3.

You will also need a diagnostic to find out why the suspension ECU isn't happy.

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

Sounds like I need to buy one. Any chance one tool will work for multiple brands like Maserati and aston?
I have an apple laptop if that makes a difference. Also same tool for suspension?

 

[allandwf]

I'd bite the bullet, stick on an indy, and put it down to experience.

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

^not possible for multiple reasons.


Ok, got the thing running and tricked it into letting the parking brake off... tried spinning the wheels at like 40mph and hitting brakes to set and off to pump it etc and didn't help.

 

[Wack61]

Sounds like I need to buy one. Any chance one tool will work for multiple brands like Maserati and aston?
I have an apple laptop if that makes a difference. Also same tool for suspension?

Think the SD3 will be about $30,000

Voicey is the man to ask about the Chinese knock offs , I think he's tried a few and none of them worked properly from what I've read.

I really don't think there's a cost effective DIY option

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

30k sounds a little excessive for my purposes, 5k sounds doable.... PM sent to the chap. Any other info from anyone else for chinese counterparts?????????

 

[Wack61]

This was recommended by a member on maseratilife 5 years ago so if it's had 5 years of software updates it might be worth looking in to

http://www.st5tester.com

 

[voicey]

The ST5 is a good tool

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

Thanks, sent them email for pricing.

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

Update... got everything perfect. No $17k scanner tool.... Did it with a shoelace, paperclip and a potato.
Thanks for the replies tho gents.


heres what the brakes and drop look like now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrntmYdrtas

 

[mattjevans]

Looks good! Wouldn't have thought of that colour for calipers myself but it works.

Rip that tacky 4.7 badge off the back though.

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

Looks good! Wouldn't have thought of that colour for calipers myself but it works.

Rip that tacky 4.7 badge off the back though.

the ladies in miami have to know Im not some stay at home kid with a mother-*******-4.2L maser as my only car tho....I mean.... lets be real... (hahahahaha)\
and I've retired my old plate frame that says "my other cars a phantom drophead"


***Send your gold digger ex wives to me... ill straighten them up and get some use out of them.... we'll both win haha!




all seriousness, even tho the rest was dead to nuts.... I'm going to gloss black all the badging and chrome on it to black.... the car is still going to get my/our custom air suspension and either a twin turbo or v12/manual conversion

 

[conaero]

The conversion sounds interesting when is that planed to be done?

 

[TheYoungconnoisseur]

The conversion sounds interesting when is that planed to be done?

Likely this winter as spring and summer flew by. Just need to get this thing back down to FL