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My 2004 prius abs and brake light came on and the the brakes became very hard and constant beeeep noise, so i would shut the car off and pump the breaks and it would work fine so i decided to bleed the brake but still have the same problem only when i shut the car off the pumping the brake trick doesn't work

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Well, a hard firm pedal, usually indicates a bad brake booster or a vacuum leak to booster or the vacuum check valve, on booster. TO TEST BRAKE BOOSTER; pump brakes several times with engine off to deplete stored vacuum. turn on engine with pushing slightly on pedal. you should feel the pedal fade away a bit and then become firm, but not hard. if you feel nothing at the pedal when engine starts the booster is at fault. good-luck !!

  • Anonymous Jun 26, 2016

    There is no vacuum booster in a Prius! This guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

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