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Follow Up to 'I think I screwed myself' 200 1990

First off, thanks for the immediate advice and support. Here's why I changed the caliper in the first place.

I Keep the car very well mechanically maintained. It has been running so smooth lately, I wonder sometimes if it is idling. Seriously, I've gotten it that smooth. Anyway, I was getting a squeek like it was time to change the pads, so I looked at the front pads and the right side was nearly completley worn down while the left was less that halfway throught the set of pads I put on last summer. Something was wrong. I figured I would just replace the caliper as they are cheap enough and it was now almost 15 years old. The caliper I got from Advance turned out to have a cut dust boot which I discovered upon returning home. So I figured I would just change all of the fluid (it was brown at this point, again, I don't think the original owner ever changed it) and then see if the fresh fluid would help the caliper. I bought the IPD EZ-Bleed device. I worked ok to bleed all of the fluid, but it never really formed an airtight seal. I fiddled with it for quite some time. The fluid came out of all the bleeders fine except the outside bleeder on the caliper with the suspected problem. I opened the bleeder but nothing came out. So off I went to NAPA. They had one in stock, a Beck-Arnley (are they good?). After an hour of futzing with very tight brake line bolts the caliper finally came off. I didn't chock the pedal so as I was putting on the new caliper, fluid slowly dripped out. After getting the caliper on I rebled the caliper with the EZ-Bleeder. It sucked. THe bleeder was working fine for about ten minutes then it blew - brake fluid was all over the floor of my garage. I got a friend to help with the pump-stop-pump method. I took quite a bit of time and fluid to re-bleed just that caliper so that now - the brakes work fine. I guess more fluid than I realized had dripped out of the caliper while I was changing it. A lot of air came oout of the side bleeders while we re-bled the system. Now the brakes are fine. No squaking or pulling to one side. Thanks again for the help.

By the way, I installed those IPD strut to firewall braces. They are like a dream come true. They were, to me, a more niticeable improvement than ever the turbo swaybars I pu on last year. Well worth it. You really feel it in the turns.






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