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The good news is I managed to get my calipers off to replace my handbrake shoes. The bad news is that, as I was tapping the pad retaining pins out of my left rear caliper, a substantial chunk of rusted caliper came off with them. I've never seen anything like it. The good news is that I found a replacement caliper at a nearby shop. The bad news is that my wife will have to pick it up, and I can't start doing the work until after dinner. In the dark. In the rain. What can I do? It's my daily driver, and I need it for work tomorrow morning.
I don't really have a question to ask, I just thought I'd let everyone know that, no matter how bad things are going for you, it could be worse.
By the way, I put up a post about getting my frozen caliper bolts out which generated a small amount of controversy over the fact that the bolts in question had 13mm, rather than 17mm heads. The 13mm heads seem to be the originals (they were on the caliper which broke). The caliper on the other side has bolts with 17mm heads. It seems to be more recent than the other one. If not for the fact that the right rear caliper was more recently replaced than the left, I'd do them both, the the right is in really good shape.
Hey, actually, I do have one question: I haven't bled brakes in about 15 years. If I am only replacing one caliper, can I get away with only bleeding that line? I'm especially curious about this since it is a rear caliper, so there's only one line. Even if I legitimately should bleed everything, will bleeding just the one line get me through my commute tomorrow, until I can do the rest (if I have to) on Friday?
-EdM.
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'90 240DL Wagon 'Lola' -- '72 1800ES 'Galadriel'
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