Help! Calipers Driving Me NUTS

[fast eddy]

OK all you guys with the helpful ideas, listen up. Today I'm smiling.:s :s

Yup! Beaming from ear to ear. If you're following this thread, you'll know that last night I said I'd go and stomp on the brakes a couple of times as a follow up to Borderbum's suggestion that the O rings needed to be seated.

The more I thought about it, the more it made sense, because the pressure exerted by the brake fluid as it passes through the center of the O ring, would tend to press the rubber against the crack between the two halves of the caliper.

Well, right or wrong, it worked. The calipers are bone dry today.

This leaking situation would not normally happen, if I had driven the car after installing the brakes, however all I did was "bleed em and leave em". AHHH, a little older, a little wiser.

Thanks for all the help. Particularly thanks to Borderbum

fast eddy

 

[gliot1]

They shouldn't weep. I just had my originals rebuitl by Muskegon Brake and they are beautiful...no seepage. The problem is that if they are seeping they are most likely sucking air as well, and soon you will have to rebleed.