Replaced pads and rotors, brake pedal sinking to floor now?!?

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I'd throw out the Chinese pads, followed by the Chinese rotors and replace them with domestic stuff. Bet your problem will be solved. But that's me. I've been burned EVERY TIME I've opted for Made-in-China crap.

If I had your problem, the first thing I'd do is put the old stuff back on. That would rule out a problem in the new things: Flexing backing pads, thin pads, thin rotors, flexing rotors and who-knows-what. That would take me back to where I was before I opened the worm can.
 
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I'd throw out the Chinese pads, followed by the Chinese rotors and replace them with domestic stuff. Bet your problem will be solved. But that's me. I've been burned EVERY TIME I've opted for Made-in-China crap.

If I had your problem, the first thing I'd do is put the old stuff back on. That would rule out a problem in the new things: Flexing backing pads, thin pads, thin rotors, flexing rotors and who-knows-what. That would take me back to where I was before I opened the worm can.

I'm really regretting throwing the pads away at this point. I have the rotors if I needed to try that and I could grab some other pads.
 

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OK ... this is really humorous. I just went out to drive my 2003 to The Depot. Brake pedal goes right to the floor. Pump it couple times, same. Put in reverse ... NO BRAKES or very little. I was able to stop it, just barely after a few feet. Crap on driveway!!! Gotta be brake fluid I would guess. No brakes.

I can drive my 2014EL until I get the 2003 repaired. I'm gonna take the attitude that you helped me out by precipitating a failure in a safe location (driveway) rather than out in traffic where it would SUCK. TFF
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Once I look at it, I'll post up what broke
I replaced both front steel brake lines with CuproNickel and also both flexible lines at the same time. Should be solid now. Brakes are still soft as always but work!
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UniqueTll...did you ever get your issue resolved? After I changed my front pads from stock ford to akobono I had a more soft/mushy brake pedal at standstill, but when driving, the brakes work good. I can even get the ABS to activate on dry road when i slam on brakes at 50mph
 
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UniqueTll...did you ever get your issue resolved? After I changed my front pads from stock ford to akobono I had a more soft/mushy brake pedal at standstill, but when driving, the brakes work good. I can even get the ABS to activate on dry road when i slam on brakes at 50mph

I'm in the same boat. The pedal is still mushy and requires a lot more travel than it should (and will drop to the floor when pressed firmly) but the brakes do work so I've just been dealing with it. I will likely try to swap out more components in the future but don't want to deal with it right now.
 

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Looks like stock rotors and metallic pads are looking better all the time. Probably the best you can do for these spongy Expies.
 

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Is there a thickness difference between these brake pads? Would that cause these issues.

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