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I have replaced both my front brake pads and rotors, we have bled and rebled all the lines to make sure there wasn't any air in the lines by using a special tube thing to do this (sorry but I am not familiar with cars what-so-ever) and there were not any air bubbles. I can pump my break 3-4 times and this will hold as long as I keep pressure on...but as soon as I turn my engine on and with very little pressure on my brake the pedal goes straight to the floor. It will build up pressure when I pump it but as I am driving and touch the brake pedal it will fall the first time and takes forever for my van to attempt the stopping process...I start driving again and press my brakes and it immediately does a nose dive stopping on a dime. We have also found that the rubber hose (which I believe he called a power assist vacuum hose??) that is connected to the booster diagram (?) when he had this hose disconnected and I started my engine my brake pedal was high and didn't just fall the the floor. It had my normal brake pressure. But when we had the hose connected that's when the pedal would fall to the floor. Is this a multiple parts replacement fix or just one thing? I am a newly single mother of 3 and my funds are very very tight so I can't afford to go and buy several parts to test with it's possibly this...then possibly that...

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You do not say what year or model it is, but even though you bled the front brakes, bleed the backs too-braking system are diaginal so a front caliper is paired with the opposite side rear brake so that if there is a failure you have better control. This is especially in older vehicles (more than 10 years)-that being said, make sure there is not a leak in the hose or the plastic fitting going from the top of the engine to the brake booster. Use a can of carb cleaner or throttle body cleaner, and with the engine running, spray around the hose where it comes out of the booster, all the way to the engine-if the idle changes at all, it has a leak. It is possible the booster has failed, and worst case you will need to replace it, they are not real hard to replace and depending on what year and model/engine, usually less than $100.

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THE POSSIBLE FIX FOR THIS IS THE VACCUM BOOSTER BUT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE MASTER CYLINDER ALSO THESE TWO PARTS WORK HAND IN HAND. I WOULD RECOMMEND GOING TO THE SALVAGE YARD AND PICKING UP THESE PARTS AND TRYING IT. IF THIS FIXES YOUR PROBLEM THEN OFF YOU GO

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