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Just in case you do go for a rebuilt caliper— 200 1984

—don't leave the store until you've checked for "Mismatched Caliper Halves".
This rebuild screw-up seems to be getting more common. Details below...

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1 — In the Girling 4-piston calipers, the fluid passage for the two upper cylinders is basically an inverted U, with ONE common bleeder at the high point.
The lower cylinder fluid passage forms an upright U, with bleeders at each of the TWO high points.

2 — Rebuilders sometimes get the INNER and OUTER caliper halves calipers mismatched. That is, the Left Side INNER half, where the lines attach, will have a Right Side OUTER half mated to it — but that OUTER half will be upside down.

3 —The reversal is not obvious because the two lower bleeders are centered on the caliper body. However, Girling punch-marks the bottom of each caliper half with a "dimple" next to the joint during factory assembly . So a dimple on the TOP of an OUTER caliper half means a mismatch.

4 — Such a caliper will have:
A - A redundant (outer) bleeder from the two upper cylinders
B - No bleeder for the Lower-outer cylinder

What looks like the Lower-outer bleeder actually now leads upward to the top bleeder. This means that fluid pumped into the upper inlet port can come out two bleeders—the normal upper one and the now redundant outer one.

And when you think you are bleeding both lower cylinders, the outer one actually has no bleed path. It's dead-ended where the outer bleeder would normally be. This means that a successful, air-free bleed operation is impossible.

NOTE: A recent case of mismatched caliper halves is described in this thread.
(I believe they were RAYLOCs from a NAPA store)
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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.






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