I am having trouble bleeding my rear calipers. I have a cup style bleeder
but I am having trouble fitting it on the bleeder and still have room for
the flare wrench. The left side has even less room because of the spring
perch. Do I have to get a vacuum style. Any ideas?
Thanks

 

You can just open the bleeder and let gravity do it for you. You can also get a helper/friend and do it the old fashioned way.

I know what you mean about the clearance on the left, I can hardly get the rubber dust cap on and off.

I'm currently rebuilding my rear calipers since the kit is $11.50 vs. $75 + core for a reman caliper. I wire brushed the crud off and the aluminum looks pretty snazzy now. I was thinking of painting the whole caliper red, but I might paint just the iron bracket part red and leave the aluminum part alone for now.

 

Thanks. With gravity bleed do you just open the bleeder and wait?
I am going to try it again and see what happens. It might just take
longer since both calipers have been off for a while.
Thanks

 

Like this:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/atta...s-89-drcar.jpg

JamesC

 

Yes, that looks good. Turns out that I bought some "annodizing" type paint to paint the aluminum part with. I hated the way it looked, so I painted both parts opaque red. I was thinking that painting the iron part yellow in contrast might look good too. Maybe next time.

 

alotta times them bleeder screws will strip you might try just bleeding it off the line