Spongy brakes???

[GTS]

As Greg says. Plus make sure your master cylinder is not arse about. Later ones have the small (rear circuit) reservoir at the front but they don't move the brake line connection thread with it. The new cylinder I got for my HJ Premier was like that.

The master cylinder has a large resevoir at the back (small tube nut) and a smaller one up front (large tube nut). I have the front res hooked up to the front brakes and rear res to the rear brakes.

[FEWY]

You can also try clamping the 3 flexible lines and see if that improves the pedal,if it doesnt its in the master cylinder.If the pedal does improve take off 1 clamp at a time and check pedal.This will indicate which brake is causing the problem.
Also when bleeding the brakes dont press pedal all the way to floor as seals in master cylinder can be turned on themselves.
Hope this helps.

Cheers FEWY

[ozbox]

with the money spent on these cars and the ease of buying the right tools everyone should have a self bleeder which can then be done with one person and does not involve pressing down of the pedal and ruining older seals...also from what gts has posted they have been bled in the wrong order..furthest away from master cylinder working towards master..also what byron has said has also caught me out once..not all masters have the reservoir for the rear brakes at the rear of the master cylinder..got me good and there was some serious head scratching at the time..

[GTS]

I originally had the front res to the rear and the rear res to the front. I swapped them around yesterday because the rear brakes were locking up for no apparent reason....which they don't do now with front res to front and rear to rear.
Having said that, the pedal was no better that way either.

[ozbox]

if there is too much air in the system then the pressure will go to the rear and lock them up..re bleed the system from rear to front which is the way it should be done and see what happens next.

[GTS]

So which way around should the pipes be? F 2 R or F 2 F

[RodneyHZ253]

On my van the front resevior goes to the rear brakes and the rear reservoir goes to the front that is the only way the pipes would fit the threads.