naz235
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I've been fixing my dads 75 Vette for a while now. It starts and runs with a battery in it, but the big problems are the brakes and the power steering (or lack thereof).
I've narrowed down the brakes to the rear calipers needing replaced. I came to this conclusion after attempting to bleed the system, snapping a bleeder off inside one of them and then pulling them off and seeing the rust on the inside of the pistons. Fronts were clean, maybe could use new pads somewhere down the road.
The PS is a bit trickier. I think its the PS control valve due to the copious amounts of what appears to be PS fluid dripping from the valve. I can't rule out the slave cylinder from leaking either, but it might just be drippings and runoff from the control valve.
My question is whether I should keep the (possibly) original calipers or turn them in as a core for remanufactured and sleeved new cylinders, or should I try to remove the broken bleeder the hard way and rebuild the calipers with new o-rings and other hardware.
Same goes for the PS Control valve. Is it better to just buy a remanned whole unit or rebuild the one thats already in there? The rebuild would cost $20 for a kit and the new unit would be between $100-250.
I've narrowed down the brakes to the rear calipers needing replaced. I came to this conclusion after attempting to bleed the system, snapping a bleeder off inside one of them and then pulling them off and seeing the rust on the inside of the pistons. Fronts were clean, maybe could use new pads somewhere down the road.
The PS is a bit trickier. I think its the PS control valve due to the copious amounts of what appears to be PS fluid dripping from the valve. I can't rule out the slave cylinder from leaking either, but it might just be drippings and runoff from the control valve.
My question is whether I should keep the (possibly) original calipers or turn them in as a core for remanufactured and sleeved new cylinders, or should I try to remove the broken bleeder the hard way and rebuild the calipers with new o-rings and other hardware.
Same goes for the PS Control valve. Is it better to just buy a remanned whole unit or rebuild the one thats already in there? The rebuild would cost $20 for a kit and the new unit would be between $100-250.
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