Brake pedal goes to the floor, no brakes and brake light is on

NICKOLA1968

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2000 DODGE DAKOTA
3.9L
V6
2WD
AUTOMATIC
200,000 MILES

I keep pumping pumping and barely comes to stop, I have put in park to stop it. I tried neutral and pump doesn't work. I tried emergency brake won't stop. I tried low first gear and pump barley stopped. I have cancer and have no money to take to a shop and I have nobody to help me. I am homeless living in my truck on top of all this. Please someone help me.

Please reach out to me God bless you and your family.

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ASEMASTER6371

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Good afternoon,

This sounds like a master cylinder that is failing.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-replace-a-brake-master-cylinder

Make sure you check the fluid level to be sure there is enough to work the system.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/brake-pedal-goes-to-the-floor

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-bleed-or-flush-a-car-brake-system

Roy

1. Remove brake lines from the master cylinder.
2. Remove mounting nuts from the master cylinder.
3. Remove master cylinder.

INSTALLATION

NOTE: If master cylinder is replaced bleed cylinder before installation.

1. Install master cylinder on booster mounting studs.
2. Install mounting nuts and tighten to 18 Nm (160 inch lbs.)
3. Install brake lines and tighten to 19 Nm (170 inch lbs.)
4. Fill and bleed base brake system.

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Thursday, May 21st, 2020 AT 11:23 AM

KASEKENNY

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More then likely you have one of two things. Either air in the system either from a leak or it just has not been bled out, or you have an internal leak allowing the pressure to bleed out of the master cylinder.

Here is a guide that will help with this basic information but we need to start with checking for external leaks. If you find any we clearly need to fix those and bleed the brakes.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/brake-pedal-goes-to-the-floor

If there are no external leaks, I would suggest bleeding the brakes just to see if you get any air out. If not, then I suspect the master cylinder has an internal leak.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-bleed-or-flush-a-car-brake-system

Also, I had the admin remove your personal info from the post. This is a public site and all can read that info so we would hate for someone to get a hold of that info.

Let us know if you find leaks and we can go from there. Also, can you let us know if there is any history to this? Did this just start or did you just make a repair to the vehicle?

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Thursday, May 21st, 2020 AT 11:24 AM

NICKOLA1968

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I'm sorry for typos. The brakes light on dash came on first then the ABS light in dash came on second and then the check engine light came on too. I had a rear passenger flat tire and the guy I paid to fix it couldn't get to my spare so he put a smaller tire 205 60 r15 on my rim. My other 3 tires were 215 75 r15. I drove like this for two weeks and the brakes problem occurred after they put tire on. They had hard time sealing tire on my rim they started it a fire many times to seal it and they lifted my truck up with a tractor because they didn't have a jack and they dropped it hard several times and they also bent and broke my bumper from my truck. Also yesterday I had to drive in town and brakes would not work coming down hill and I had make fast turn and my front sway bar stabilizer link passenger side broke off. I'm not sure if all the stuff they did that day with changing my tire was some cause of this but brakes were fine before this event I am so scared and so very sick with my cancer Lyme disease malaria that I can't take much more if people taking advantage of me and ruining my my truck which has been home for a year and half now. Thanks so much for considering helping me I greatly appreciate it so much you can't understand.
Sincerely.

Nickola
Tennessee

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Thursday, May 21st, 2020 AT 11:25 AM

ASEMASTER6371

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Thank you.

The reason for the ABS light is the tire. The module is seeing a different roll speed from the tire being smaller.

That is not the reason for no pedal. That is mechanical and is still most likely a master cylinder.

Roy

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Thursday, May 21st, 2020 AT 11:30 AM

NICKOLA1968

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Brakes were bled yesterday and they say no air no fluid came from lines. First 5 times pressed the brakes with bleeder open and nothing came out and then next few times just a little bit few drops fluid came out from bleeder.