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littlebuggie
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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: Disc Brakes |
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I put disc brakes on the rear of my squareback 2 years ago.. Now I'm getting ready to start driving my squareback again and I can't get the rear brakes to bleed. Its a 66 so it stock with front disc, rear drum. I put an aftermarket rear disc kit on before I stopped driving it and they worked great. Now I can't get them to bleed. So I bought a new master cyc. New rear disc kit, new break lines and I can get the passengers side to bleed a steady fluid line out, but the drivers sides I only can get it to drool out, with alot of air bubbles, if I take the hard line out of the new caliper it will have a steady fluid line, but as soon as I hook it up to the caliper it goes to drool. both my new and old calipers do the same thing... Whats up with that?
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spook
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: Re: Disc Brakes |
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| I can get the passengers side to bleed a steady fluid line out, but the drivers sides I only can get it to drool out, with alot of air bubbles, if I take the hard line out of the new caliper it will have a steady fluid line, but as soon as I hook it up to the caliper it goes to drool. both my new and old calipers do the same thing... Whats up with that? |
2 things come to mind, metric vrs standard break fittings
or 2 bad calipers . The last time I saw the symptoms like
you are describing, one of the break pistons wasn't retracting
when line pressure was removed.
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Hotrodvw
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: |
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Check the hoses to make sure the inner tube hasn't collapsed.
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