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Uncle Steve,
Yeah, like Uncle Art suggests ... what model and year is your Volvo? Please indicate as such from the MODEL/YEAR drop down menus.
Indeed, bricksters, where's the love and affection.
We all play on the Volvo team, yay?
Also, you can use the brickboard search feature to encounter threads on this very matter. If the search feature does not work, try a Bing or Google search using search terms that targets the brickboard.com domain. You may also want to take a look at turbobricks.com under the Maintenance/Nonperformance (i think that's the name for it) section.
I don't mean to sound like a huge chiding bastard.
I cannot speak to Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna (all the same company grouped by brand) rebuilt calipers. They source cheap, cheap, cheap made in Taiwan and worse.
I'll guess your calipers are rebuilt by one of the re-manufacturing services, then, as with all the crappy, crappy, crappy, evil automotive after-market, are purchased by Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna and dropped into a box of theirs, so branded.
If the rebuilt Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna your installed leaks, you'll need to replace it. So return it and either try again or try a different brand.
Many parts rebuilding services exist.
I replaced the front Girling calipers on my 1991 240 sedan. Purchased from AutoZone using their house brand (I forget the name). They work fine, so far (knock on high tensile Swedish steel). My only grip is the bleeder nipples they use, to replace the bleeder nipples they came with, use a smaller wrench by 1 or 2 mm spanner size. So, you have to use smaller bleeder nipple caps.
Yes, you want those bleeder nipple caps. Crap and moisture gets inside the bleeder nipple. I'm certain, over time, corrosion develops inside the brake caliper bleeder nipple bore. Where the bleeder nipple seals, when closed, against the brake caliper brake fluid bore, any corrosion may cause it to seize, leak, or worse.
Some of you may experience this when you take that handy spanner, if even a hex (six) point box end, and you mean to counterclockwise (lucy lefty, right tighty) twist the bleeder nipple open as you are being a good little RWD Volvo owner and you mean to flush the nasty decade-owld black brake fluid with clean DOT 4 fluid using your Motive power bleeder, and you cannot open the bleeder nipple, and bleeder does not move, and you try again, and the bleeder nipple does not move, and so, with resolve you apply more force, and the bleeder nipple goes snap.
So you have replace that brake caliper. Maybe others.
Welp, like I write here, research, research, and research. You may want to look at other European auto care boards like for BMW, Mercedes, Saab, and perhaps, even though I can't say it, VW. See what the post offer, as, of course anecdotal description, the success or failure with after market rebuilt brake calipers.
Pay particular attention to how recent the posts are by date. If you arrive at some consensus that a retail vendor offers up consistent quality rebuilt brake calipers, you may encounter better success using one retail vendor over another.
You want the anecdotal information in a brickboard, turbobricks, or other Europa auto brand enthusiast to be current as the crappy, evil, stupid, lying and misrepresenting auto parts after market is a shifting and bastardly one. The retail vendors employ buyers of varying scruples and awareness from whole sale vendors of equal quality. There is no civic notion or quality or duty, merely what's profitable, versus forming a lasting impression on the RWD care for it forever Volvo community through the brickboard and turbobricks that results in us and are wallets supporting the better vendors.
Sorry to be off-topic. I have a set of Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna inner tie rods on the TRW/CAM steering rack on my li'l red wee beatsie 1990 240 DL wagon (kombi, estate). The Carquest parts store retail dood was all, "Dood, Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna is made in USA, dood." And well, on the Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna box was "Made in Taiwan" to my consternation. I was too pissed and angry to state my feeling and bought them anyway. The Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna inner tie rods are rather inferior.
Welp, hope that helps.
I have a set of made in South Korea Lemförder (a ZF brand like Boge) inner tie rods I'm about to install in my 1991 240 sedan. These tie rods are waaaaaaaay better, Dude, than the Raybestos/Spicer/Dayna tie rods. Also, in a political sens, I'd rather support South Korea over Taiwan.
In the United States, and perhaps all of N. America and the Americas, we have a REALLY crappy auto parts after market. We rarely get the made in Europa parts stuff made for our made in Europa autos. (Though if a North American RWD 200 or 700 or 900 series Volvo you own, it was most likely assembled at the truly unfortunately now closed Volvo factory in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.)
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Happy Friday, everybody!
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