if brakes on a jeep...

[pdiggitydogg]

if brakes on a jeep feel like absolute mushy crap,
and the pads/rotors are fine (like new) , the bb is fine, the mc is in great shape and full of heavy DOT3, and there is no air in the lines (bled them 3x per corner)....

what the hell is the problem??

Its getting kinda stupid rediculous. Ive been trying to get these things to work well for over a week with the same results.

My brain is about out of "ideas"...anyone for more insight?

[B16DoHcCrx033003]

im stabbin gin the dark here, but in the master cylinder there is a lil rubber thing that creates vacume, u may have not set that:confused:

[pdiggitydogg]

checked that...

[B16DoHcCrx033003]

dunno then srys

[Wren57]

you sure the pedal is still hooked up properly?

[pdiggitydogg]

yeah....its not old, its an 02
my mom bought it from the factory that way, i guess

I just had to drive it today and realized it wasnt supposed to be the way it was...she says "its always like that"

[ChrisCantSkate]

its probobly just shitty brakes

[pdiggitydogg]

kinda what im gonna say....and just leave it at that

[nonovurbizniz]

jeeps have spungy pedals... as do most car designed for the mass'...

My dad's benz has a pedal like a bucket of wet rags...

as long as they're doing their job it's fine...

the cause I believe is softer compounds used in the brake lines... get her some SS lines... dat shi0t will be mad tizite.

[pdiggitydogg]

see thats the prob though...they dont really brake well either

[C's 94 InTeGrA]

hey brakes on them new ones suck. they had a recall on them when we got ours and still have not got the problem solved so we sold the damn thing. We had to replace the brakes like 3 times in a month.. thats horrible

[ebpda9]

most of the newer jeeps stop like crap. i drove quite a few of them

[nonovurbizniz]

My parents have had 2 jeeps... the older boxy cherokeer... and the first year or so of the newer cherokee.

Both felt like crap stopping but did so adequetly... the pedals were both soft and crappy...

EVERY jeep I've driven at a garage has felt the same way... they all brake ok... it just doesn't feel like it through the pedal or from the seat... but they do stop.

I'm pretty sure they almost all have rear drums too... which certainly doesn't help for feel.

[pdiggitydogg]

thing is, my mom has only owned jeeps as long Ive lived...and ive driven each of them (even the '86 when I was 8) and none of them had brakes like this
I guess chalk it up to them becoming crappy chrysler pos

[C's 94 InTeGrA]

ya my mom defs found out how shitty her brakes was when she tried to stop from like 35mph and a red jeep pulled out in front of her and nearly flipped it over

[Wren57]

the new jeep grand cherokee brakes SUCK. both my ex-GFs parents have them, and the brakes oscillate every time!!! Slowing down/braking on the interstate, the car SHAKES violently. It shakes bad every time you brake, worse the higher the speed. They took the car to the dealer, but he gave them the typical "its common, so its ok" lecture, and they believed him...:rolleyes: