Brake calipers

[Guest F14CRAZY]

I don't know why I haven't mentioned this is my conversion thread, but when I removed my original calipers, I drained the fluid from them to minimize any mess in my trunk (then put them in a trashbag). But anyway, I the fluid from them to be black and cruddy. I've bled them when I got the coupe, so 2 years ago, and bled them about a week before I did the front conversion (bled the fronts along with the rears when I installed the upgraded rears).

This black crud in our calipers that cant be just bled out may be a bad thing, but maybe not. Calipers typically don't go bad considering I don't recall someone here replacing calipers ever. Barney did point out though that brake fluid with like 2% moisture or so, I dont recall the exact number, lowers the boiling temp 100 degrees. I dont think this is causing any brake fade though. The crud probably doesn't really have moisture anyway.

What do you guys think? Should we not worry, or should removing and draining our calipers, (maybe blowing them out with conpressed air) be added to out Teves system maintenance?

[jonlabree]

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[shoreice]

I say not to worry about it. This stuff gets pushed out when you turn in the pistons during a pad change.

[manikmekanik]

The step to add would be to bottom all calipers before bleeding, to minimize the crud in the system.

[Guest F14CRAZY]

That makes sense.

[Guest MauiWowee]

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[Guest F14CRAZY]

Thank you Maui for the persistent bothering. I'll get to it.

[Guest MauiWowee]

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