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    I have a 1997 gt and I bought my car about a year ago and had the brakes bled at that time and they worked fine until about May, at which point I had to have them bled again because the pedal was getting extremely soft. Now I have no brakes at all and I am wondering what could be the problem. I am thinking it has to be either the master cylinder or the abs bracket that connects to the master cylinder. My brakes are fine as long as I bleed them frequently but if I let them go for a month I have no brakes at all.
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    hoses. did you check for leaks?
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    are you losing brake fluid?

    98 Buick Regal GS, F body brakes, Caddy STS wheels, tinted tails L36 bottom end, lightly ported heads, 1.95 roller rockers, headers, gen 5 N* 3.0 pulley, FSIC, 42 lb injectors, a BrandonHall rebuilt trans, DHP tuned and AEM water/Meth injection https://goo.gl/gpV5kW
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    Nope the level has been at the top the entire time. I checked all the hoses for leaks and they all are not leaking.
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    what are bleeding, the calipers or the abs module?

    98 Buick Regal GS, F body brakes, Caddy STS wheels, tinted tails L36 bottom end, lightly ported heads, 1.95 roller rockers, headers, gen 5 N* 3.0 pulley, FSIC, 42 lb injectors, a BrandonHall rebuilt trans, DHP tuned and AEM water/Meth injection https://goo.gl/gpV5kW
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    Calipers are what I am bleeding to get my pedal back but it just goes all the way down again in about a month. It either has to be the abs module or the master cylinder. Changing the entire thing will be about 800 new so I would like to try and narrow it down to one thing if I could.
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    see if you have 2 bleeders on the abs pump right on the master cylinder, they face the front of the car, so if your at the bumper your looking right at them straight on. bleed them, just like a caliper. pump pump pump, hold, bleed. repeat.

    i use a piece of vac tubing when i bleed these 2 because the fluid shoots all over the cross over and tranny. and hold the tube into a can or bottle to catch it. i do the same for calipers, why make a mess.

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    I talked to the guy who did my brakes and he did that the first time when the brakes when bad. I am convinced that it has to be the abs module but my abs light is not on and the abs seems to be working. A new module is around $400 so I would like to avoid that if I do not need it but I really do not have any other options.
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    try re bleeding those 2 bleeders again. when my master cylinder was going bad i was getting air in the abs pump constantly. every few weeks i'd have to re bleed it. or deal with a soft pedal.

    if you beeled these 2 and get a firm pedal back, look under you master, where it bolts to the booster, see if it wet under it. thats where they like to leak from, if its leaking.

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