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Girling Front calibers questions 140-160

posted by  cef2lion on  Wed May 30 08:22 CST 2007
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Been working on replacing the front girling calipers on my 144S. Its been a long process tracking down parts and getting those two short looping brakes lines that comes off the bottom of the caliper made up. Took six weeks for company to send those metal lines to me. Friend of mine made the contact and ended up not charging me cause it took so long. I had since gotten remanufactured calipers from NAPA. Put those on the shelf while waiting on the lines. Went to put everything on last weekend and found out one of the calipers was a core send back in a new box. NAPA ordered another. I'm also concerned those metal lines are going to need a bit more bending. What I sent away must have gotten unshaped a bit after taking off the care. I found a photo of how it should be. I hope I can bend them to fit.

I was wondering why Volvo didn't run both brake hoses right to the caliper and eliminate that short metal brake line. I will have to look at it closer once I get it back together to see if there is an issue with that hose getting bent or kinked.

With that metal line you would have to be real careful replacing or pulling rotors so as not to kink that metal line. Or one would have to open the system to pull the caliper just to take the rotor off.

Craig






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