need help on a land rover

adam greene

adam greene

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ok this is my parents vehical, wednesday my mom drove it to work everything worked as it should when she got off she cranked it and started to leave work and it didnt have any brakes. ok so i went and got it on a trailer got it back home and have been tryin to figure it out since then. I have replaced the master cylinder and brake booster and have bleed the brakes by hand and with a machine and cant get anything. what am i missing here the vehical it a 1997 land rover
 
it dont have a electric brake booster im pretty sure. And its gettin a good steam of fluid when u bleed them and the peddle just goes to the floor.
 
im not real sure it looked fine my dad took it to one of his friends that is a mechanic and they have been tryin to figure it out for 2 days
 
does it have abs? on some vehicles w/abs there are strange things that need to be done to bleed them properly. i know nothing about land rovers though.
 
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BigRedB2 said:
does it have hill decent control?
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not in 97



Adam is this a Range Rover or a Discovery?? I am betting Discovery, if so it sounds like the ABS is getting a wacky signal from one of the sensors, when that happens the computer gets confused and dumps the valves in the modulator and no matter what you do with the pedal she isnt gonna stop till you hit something. When it started having this problem, is it making a lot of noise in behind the dash on the driver side and can you feel a pulsing through the pedal as it goes to the floor???


That shit happened to me ONCE and I had enough. I'm guessing the guy who wrote the program for the ABS computer is one of those assholes who rides his bicycle everywhere. One day at lunch he has 4 pints too many and decides the ultimate anti-lock braking system would just not do a damn thing if it got confused. After all, it cant lock the wheels up if the pedal goes to the floor. Best thing to do is buy a $10,000 scan tool. OR go under the hood, to the fuse panel, pull the big and little ABS fuses, then pop off the instrument cluster cover, snatch the "anti-lock" bulb holder out and throw the bulb out the window. :Rockon:

888-789-4296 next time you need some help :flipoff2:
 
Well if the problem was in the ABS, disabling the ABS would have fixed it. You said you bled the brakes, was fluid coming out the rears normally? There is a proportioning valve on the drivers side inner fenderwell that can go bad and the rear brakes wont do much at all. Let me know if you need one (or if you want to scrap the truck)
 
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