Subject	Brake fluid destroyed my paint on my entire car!!!!!
Posted by	sorka on December 20, 2005 at 7:22 PM
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Message	What a really really sucky day. I bled my brakes on Sunday. Used Speed Bleeders. Made the job go really fast. Well today I noticed that all my paint around my wheel wells had been eaten through just as my brake light came on. Upon closer examination, there was brake fluid and lots of it inside the wheels. It had been dripping from the calipers and spraying everywhere. At first I thought I'm a dumb as for not tightening the speed bleeders down tight enough. But now it appears that it wasn't the bleeders after all. There's nothing coming out of them (will know for certain when I get home and take a wheel off) but it appears the fluid is in fact coming out of the caliper seems. I used Dot 3 & 4 Valvoline synthetic and completely flushed them from end to end on Sunday.
Follow Ups	Brake fluid destroyed my paint on my entire car!!!!! - sorka 19:22:46 12/20/05 That sucks big time!! (n/m) - Gold Z 19:29:17 12/20/05 That sucks. (n/m) - my91z 19:29:46 12/20/05 ooooo, bogey. - Jimmys2+2(SoFL) 19:35:43 12/20/05 Damn! Sorry to hear that. (n/m) - TheTwinZ (Peru) 19:38:07 12/20/05 Oh man, very sorry to hear that :( - 300zx90 (CO) 20:23:34 12/20/05 that blows - Drk93TT 20:53:06 12/20/05 Oh ouch. - Spddracer 21:23:40 12/20/05 Re: Brake fluid destroyed my paint on my entire car!!!!! - z_man300 22:08:33 12/20/05 Not sure yet.... - sorka 23:38:39 12/20/05 Update.... - sorka 23:37:03 12/20/05 that's some bad mofo. I had a caliper that leaked - longhornz32(Fort Worth) 23:44:26 12/20/05 It was the Speed Bleeders!!!!!! - sorka 01:14:01 12/21/05 I've never heard of someone "torquing" their speed bleeders - Z-Jay (Edmonton, AB) 09:47:09 12/21/05 Not even a remote chance. (n/m) - sorka 10:52:18 12/21/05 Where are you getting the 5.1-6 lb-ft spec from? Is that - Z-Jay (Edmonton, AB) 11:59:47 12/21/05 my experiences with speed bleeders - spyhunter(nj) 10:41:54 12/21/05 Were you able to re-tap the caliper after it stripped, or - Haasz32 11:13:39 12/21/05 bookmark-ed. (n/m) - Adam (NoVA) 05:51:45 12/21/05 Same thing happened to me. - paradox77(Austin) 06:57:27 12/21/05 You've had the worst luck with this car... (n/m) - Fuzznutz 08:28:22 12/21/05
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