As mentioned earlier, we needed to replace our rear brake line for reasons that I will not mention again. We also rebuilt our master cylinder and all the calipers.
When we went to reassemble the brake system, we quickly realized that we had an issue: the threads on the new brake line did not match the master cylinder. AND the threads on new flexible brake lines did not match the front calipers.
I think we ordered adapters online something like three times, and each time they were either the wrong thread count, or the male/female threads were the reverse of what we needed.
We tried to cap off the rear port on the master cylinder and just get the front brakes working, but it just wasn't happening. We thought maybe I had rebuilt the cylinder incorrectly (because the manual is SO clear on the subject...), but no matter what we tried we couldn't get any pressure in the system.
In the end, because the master cylinder has to be bled through to get all the brakes to work, we were only able to get the front right brake to work.
Oh well. Better than NO brakes.
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