location of master cylinder bleeder valve.
I am working on this exact project on my '04 six cylinder stang. I've been having a really hard time bleeding the brake lines in general. Started with the passenger rear, my assistant pumped it for maybe 10 minutes and best I could get out of it was kind of a drool. Same with the right rear. Got a good spray out of both of the front lines. I put it back together, and drove it around the block, got the squishy brake pedal and I figure it's the master cylinder. Soft pedal, whooshing noise when I hit the brake.
But, I need some clarification on exactly what the master cylinder bleeder locations look like and/or where they are. I tried removing the two fittings that are on the engine side of the brake cylinder, and bleeding them from there, but it sprayed brake fluid out onto the hot exhaust manifold, and started a small, brief fire. Not good.
It looks like further down the brake lines, there is a metal block with what might be removable bolts above and below it, which the two brake lines go through. That might be it. Dunno. Tried to remove the top one, easiest to get to, and that metal is quite soft and I am afraid of screwing them up. I've already busted off a bolt elsewhere on this brake job so I hate to put the gorilla grip on it for fear of messing this thing up as well.
If those two lines coming out of the master cylinder are it, I'm going to have to attach a fitting to them of some type, and run some tubing somewhere so that I do not overspray and catch that nice old car on fire.
Plan B is I go to the auto zone and see if they have the brake bleeding tool over there. In fact, that might actually be Plan A.
So any detailed advice on this would be really appreciated.
p.s. I had a 94 and did 3 front and 1 rear brake job on it, with no apparent issues, so I am not a complete rookie at this, I've done about 6 other brake jobs on different other makes and models, but this is my first attempt on my 04 and has been pretty much nothing but problems.