ok i got a set of rear brake calipers from autozone and the problem is that they will not take any fluid.....i tried bleeding the brakes but nothing would come out..........i didnt hook up the parking brake......would this affect it??

 

Maybe the flex hose is plugged.

 

are you talkin bout the hose that runs up to the caliper......cuz i dont believe that is plugged cuz when i took off the line to the caliper there was fluid coming from not only the line but the caliper too.............

 

Yep, thats the hose. There is also one from the frame to the axle.


I had a crossthreaded bleeder valve on a rebuilt caliper from Autozone once (but it just always leaked). Will it bleed if the valve is removed from the caliper?

 

yah the lines are fine they bleed....actually i talked to the guys at autozone and one of them told me to do somethign with them that may work cuz he had to do it on his 78 trans am with rear disc's......if it doesnt work then i guess i'll just go to midas or something....

 

matt

open the bleeder valve and then pump the brake pedal till fluid starts coming out, the close the bleeder valve and bleed them normally

 

i tired that.......after about 20 pumps we decided that there was something wrong....

 

matt

how much did your calipers cost, I have a sticking one and don't want to faint in front of the guys at autozone when they tell me

have you tried pumping with the brake lines diconected & doing one at a time, had this problem when I did the rear brakes on my 82 vette, couldn't get fluid out of the bleeders, then after tinkering with each bleed on the calipers they finally started squirting, I think you have a bad air pocket, much like my vette did

 

umm im sorry but i couldnt really understand what you meant there.....i'll just state what i have done and you can tell me what else i should do


i tried bleeding them while hooked up...nothing

disconnected the line from the caliper and fluid came out of both the caliper and the line

tried messing with the stud in back where parking brake would be.....nothing


what the autozone guy suggested was to keep the counterweight off of the old parking brake assembly and put it on there......crank it til the brakes are actuated then try and bleed/set the brakes then they should work......

 

Are both sides giving you trouble?

 

So what's the year of this car?

 

its an 1984 trans am

and yes both sides are not being cool....the passenger side is leaking from where the parking brake is connected.....grr oh well i will try tomorrow to do what the autozone guy said....

 

matt

try this .... I replaced mine today and had the same problem, mine started to squirt after starting the motor and pumping the brake pedal real fast and hard took about 15 tries and they started squirting

 

hmmm.......i never had the car on while doing it.....umm well i WOULD try that but one of my calipers is leaking out of the parking brake mount so i will have to take it back to autozone and get another one.....