help please: Pesky Bleeder valve!!
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Racer
Joined: May 2004
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From: austin tx
help please: Pesky Bleeder valve!!
well, the valve on my left front brake caliper is really not cooperating...It's starting to get rounded off...I even tried vise-grips to no avail. Any tips on getting out the valve to that it can be replaced? Thanks very much
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Austin Texas
Hey, just down the road from you here in round rock.
your methods sound good. you are commited to vice grips now. do you have a torch? if so, you could try to warm up the caliper and hope it expands enought to wiggle the bleeder out. i snapped off one out of eight. i wish i had taken my time and let it soak in some liquid wrench or something of the sort.
i just finished a full brake job so i know how you feel.
good luck
john
your methods sound good. you are commited to vice grips now. do you have a torch? if so, you could try to warm up the caliper and hope it expands enought to wiggle the bleeder out. i snapped off one out of eight. i wish i had taken my time and let it soak in some liquid wrench or something of the sort.
i just finished a full brake job so i know how you feel.
good luck
john
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2001
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From: 68 427 4.11s Roadster
This sounds stupid but try tightening it. sometimes a fastener will tighten and not loosen. If it does then you can loosen it.
Heat it up.
I once drove my car to a garage just so they could remove the hard line. I broke it so vice gripped it closed and let them remove it.
Apparently this isn't totally
since the guy was totally dead pan when I told him about the vice grips.
Sometimes this is easier, take the caliper to a garage and let them wreak havoc on it. Specially if it ain't totaly broke yet.
Heat it up.
I once drove my car to a garage just so they could remove the hard line. I broke it so vice gripped it closed and let them remove it.
Apparently this isn't totally
since the guy was totally dead pan when I told him about the vice grips.Sometimes this is easier, take the caliper to a garage and let them wreak havoc on it. Specially if it ain't totaly broke yet.
