88 F150 Brake question

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MIKEGREENE
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Hi, I have a 1988 F-150 4X4.
I've gone thru the brakes and find that no matter how much I bleed the brakes I cant get the fading/spongie pedal to tighten up.
I've blead them the good ol school way several times and with a vacuum bleeder. Finially I bought a set of Speed Bleeders http://www.speedbleeder.com/
(These are really awesome)

I suspected that there was a problem with the proportioning valve but this truck doesnt have one. I did find that it has an ABS control valve on the frame, could this valve be mallfunctioning?

Thanks for the help
Jan 11, 2007 at 2:44 PM
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BRUCE HUNT
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Have you considered that your master cylinder could be failing?
Jan 11, 2007 at 2:59 PM
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MIKEGREENE
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I have replaced it, then and after about 1 month decided that I got a bad one (suspected that it was bypassing internaly) and swapped it for another one.
The problem never got better.
Jan 11, 2007 at 4:12 PM
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MIKEGREENE
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Bruce, you haven't forgotten me have you?
My manual doesn't cover the ABS module under the truck on the inside of the frame. This is the only thing I haven't tried to date.

Any info will shurely be appreciated.
Jan 12, 2007 at 2:33 PM
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HEAVYDUTY
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make sure your rear brakes are in adjustment
Jan 14, 2007 at 8:52 PM
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MIKEGREENE
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Ok it will be a couple of days before I get another day off to work on it.
I does have self adjusting brakes and I did repl the hardware, but I'll check that anyway
Jan 15, 2007 at 5:27 AM