Need Brake Help!
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Fierostore mailed my lines in 2 days! wow thats awesome! But the front line was wrong. So on wednesday of last week I talked to justin and since they didn't have another kit in stock they had classic tube drop ship a front line to me. Well its 5 days later... Called fierostore, they called classic tube... who never mailed my line. I'll have it wednesday at the latest (or so I am told). Which sucks because this car is supposed to be my DD so I can save some gas rather than driving my wrangler. More setbacks, my fave.
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Line came today, perfect fit! Whoever made this line was paying attention. Cannot say the same for the rest of the kit. I give it a C, yeah its pretty stainless and its about 50% right, for a $159.95 direct fit kit, its absolutely atrocious. The rear line on an 84 is totally different from an 87, despite what they told me, yes it winds up in the same place and will work but it hits 1 of 3 mounting points. It will work and based on how poorly they handled my last problem its not worth my time to get an 85-87 rear line.
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Finally got them all on. Start bleeding the rear brakes, no air after a few pumps. Pedal still isn't THAT hard. Go up to the front brake, open the bleeder, nothing, pumped again, nothing. Removed the bleeder totally, pumped, nothing. Took the hose of and pumped, nothing came out the the hose. WTF could be wrong I am so unbeleivably pissed right now.
You are closing the bleeder again before letting the pedal up right?
If you leave the bleeder totally open the brake fluid will just be going back and forth in the lines as the pedal comes back up.
I use a vacuum bleeder for when I don't have anyone around to help, works quite well. If you have time you can just open all the bleeders and let it sit and gravity bleed.
If you leave the bleeder totally open the brake fluid will just be going back and forth in the lines as the pedal comes back up.
I use a vacuum bleeder for when I don't have anyone around to help, works quite well. If you have time you can just open all the bleeders and let it sit and gravity bleed.
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The rubber hose is clogged or collapsed. I took it off and tried to dump some alcohol in it (thinnest thing I had around) and it won't go through. Fluid shoots out of the hard line when you push the pedal so the line and proportioning block are fine. Smyth autoparts in getting me a hose today, it'll be in tomorrow morning. $23, wohoo.
Not to sound like an asshat, but if you're going through the trouble of replacing all the hardline, there is no good reason to use old rubber hoses. None at all.
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I did it because I was a cheap bastard. Then I bought the braided FieroStore lines and they fell apart on me.Mach10 wrote:Not to sound like an asshat, but if you're going through the trouble of replacing all the hardline, there is no good reason to use old rubber hoses. None at all.
Now I have Raybestos.
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Okay, so you know the 4 prong pad clips? That don't come on the cheap pads so you have to try to "re-use" them? Yeah screw that noise I tried to jerryrig the clips on with jb weld because I was so damn frustrated. Forget that, I don't feel like dying when I try to slow down after putting 10 cars on a 3.4dohc. Who sells pads that come with the clips already in them? Preferably o'reilly, autozone, advance, pepboys, smyth, something. Cause I'd like to hold them in my hand and know they are right. If not give me somebody online who you know sells pads that click to the piston with no backwoods engineering
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Advance Auto Parts. They don't stock the pads at the store level, but the national distribution center in Tenn has a few sets on hand at any given time (IIRC no more than a 3 day order to get them in store). AAP is getting like $63, so $50 from amazon isn't that bad. Fair warning, for whatever reason, the Bendix Titanium Metallic pads seem to not like some cars at all. I haven't had any problems with the ones on my fiero, but the ones on my wife's lancer have been nothing but trouble (as long as I can get warranty swaps I'll keep using them tho). Had the same experience with customers cars when I used to sell them; some cars they were great, some cars awful.CincinnatiFiero wrote:AAP?
I had one of my friends who still works there pull in a set of AAP's econo pads, Wearever Silver, they do have the clips installed, and they're under $20 a set. #'s are the same as bendix #'s MKD261 (front) and MKD262(rear).
Also, I was wrong about the brake hoses, the ones I got are from Russel, not Earl's.
EDIT: Part # is 692110, and Summitt actually has 4 sets on their eBay store right now for $99.
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