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91 cutlass cieara Brake Prob. Need Help

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larry33kc

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I just got a 91 cutlass for free and the car is in top shape, the lady that had it thought the trans. was going bad but I have found out the the rear brakes were shot and the front right brake is locking up, and the trans seems fine.

Heres the problem, I replaced everything in the rear and those are fine now. I replaced the front pads, and the rotors are in great shape. While replacing the right front I found the caliper wound not move it was froze solid, so I put on a new one.
Go to bleed the brakes haveing the wife pump them up, and when I open the bleeder on the front it squirted a few times, then all of the sudden it would just trickle out when I opened the bleeder the wife said the pedal was still going to the floor.

After I bleed the brakes I took it for a drive and the pedal was hard as a rock and was locking the left front. Then I was going to turn around and saw the right front was smoking bad, it was locked up and had been for a bit. Rotor was blue and the pads smelled bad.

Whats up, is there something in the line or is the master cylinder going bad, or do I have a line colapsing.

Any ideas on this problem
 
UPDATE:

I went out and took the rotor off today, and it was a b$tch the caliper was clamped on tight it took alot to get it off, then I tried to push the piston back into the caliper and now it won't move like the old one.

Is there something in the line or is it a bad m/c. I wouldn't think it would be the M/C because it is only doing it on one side not both fronts.

Any ideas
 
Change the brake hose, they tend to go bad on the inside and will hold pressure once its applied.THat will solve hte problem unless it has a kink in the metal line somewhere.Its common for the hose to colapse and do that
 
I was kind of thinking about that, I will change it out and see what happens
 
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