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Before you buy parts, make sure you can get the brakeline nut off the caliper. They tend to become one with the caliper and difficult to get loose.
Use a good wrench or vice grips and try to loosen the nut. If you can free it up at least 1/4 turn, tighten it back down and order the caliper. If it won't come loose, a mechanic is your best friend.
Chew a piece of gum while you are starting to replace the caliper, before you remove the rear wheel. Take the slide pins out of the new caliper and grease then nicely with brake grease, put the pins back in.
Unscrew the brake line from the caliper and either let the residual brake fluid drip into a container or stick the gum onto the end of the exposed brake line.
Replace the caliper, screw on the brake line without the gum.
To bleed the line, loosen the bleeder screw. Put a 1/4 inch clear plastic hose line over the nipple and let it drain into a bottle. Push on the brake pedal until all air bubbles are out of the plastic hose. It does not need a lot of fluid to do this. Use DOT 4 fluid. Read the specs on the reservoir bottle.
When done bleeding, tighten the bleed screw and check the level of the brake fluid. This is a good time to buy a quart of fluid and flush all of the brake lines.
Klaus
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Just driving a 1998 V70R :)
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