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How do you screw up a brake job.
Somehow, I did. All that I was doing was replacing the caliper on one wheel, the right front. Also, the pads. It took me three tries with Advance Auto to get a caliper that included the sliding bracket, but finally it did. I assembled it correctly and screwed it onto the hydraulic line.
Now here is the only place I can think of where something might have gone wrong. When I first removed the caliper, the area of the hose next to the connecting nut looked a bit worn. I assumed it was only the rubber covering and that the line itself was functionally intact. There was no leakage of hydraulic fluid visible.
When I reassembled the Caliper to the hose and installed it onto the rotor, the tube took on quite a twist, but that did not seem to cause any loss of fluid.
I bled the wheel in the usual manner. Let me review that. Open bleeder, push brake pedal down, inspect fluid release for air bubbles, close bleader and release pedal, repeat.
The only thing that was different from my usual experience, was that there were no air bubbles, or very few.
When I took the car for a ride, it was as if there was no hydraulics at all. Brake pedal right to the floor. It would stop the care, OK, but only mechanically.
Was my bleeding sequence wrong.
After assembling the wheel back onto the car, I refilled the brake fluid reservoir. The level remains as it should. So there has been no loss of brake fluid.
Bob Franklin
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