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pinhead01
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Jun 18, 2011, 9:50 AM

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I have a 99 Mercury Sable Station Wagon. When you apply the brakes with steady pressure, brake pedal stays up. Reduce pressure just a bit and pedal goes slowly to the floor. What causes this? A sensor, pressure valve or what?


Hammer Time
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Jun 18, 2011, 12:43 PM

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Sounds like the ABS is triggering in error.



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pinhead01
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Jun 20, 2011, 7:25 PM

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So I checked the ABS and sensors and they are all fine but the brakes are still doing the same do you have any other ideas? Have you ever heard or seen this happen to anyone?


Tom Greenleaf
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Jun 20, 2011, 11:45 PM

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I've seen more than one master cylinder do that. Hit firmly it hold and lightly pedal sinks. Usually that will trigger a warning light if pedal sinks enough,

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Hammer Time
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Jun 21, 2011, 2:57 AM

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There is no way that you could have checked the sensors and ruled them out. You would need a professional scan tool with the ability to record frame by frame sensor data. This is not something that you are equipped to diagnose if it is an ABS problem.

Reading your question again, it could very possibly be a bypassing master as Tom suggested.



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(This post was edited by Hammer Time on Jun 21, 2011, 2:59 AM)





 
 
 






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