Hi guys,hope you can help us. I replaced the pads on the front of my 2002 SES and noticed that they feel spongy now, like there is air in the lines. All I did was compress the calipers and put the pads on and had a spongy pedal. How can that happen?? They were nice an firm before the replacement was done. I have bled them and they seem a little better but they still aren't what they were before we started this little project. I need to get them back to the way they felt prior to the replacement. Any ideas would be helpful.

 

You may be mistaking brake pads that need to be seated in with a spongy pedal. Go around the block a couple times, lay into the pedal hard once or twice. That should help them seat to the rotors. I've heard in very very rare cases seals being damaged in the master cylinder while compressing the calipers. In 15 years of doing brakes though, it has never happened to me.