Stuck bleeder valve...

mommucked

mommucked

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Replacing 2010 Escape front brakes , rotors, reman. calipers, Did the first side in less than a hour, next side done and went to bleed and the bleeder w not budge. I ended up about destroying it w vice grips and it would not move . Nobody, even the local Ford dealer parts had or could get another caliper for at least a day or 2 so I pulled them both off and cleaned up and remounted the old ones .Anybody else dealt w that before ?...........next time I do some calipers I'll check/loosen the bleeders before installing them.
 
One thing I always check/do with new/reman calipers is pull the bleeders out and replace them with new. All the ones I've ever seen have been complete junk, I think they just make them out of the lowest grade of metal available.

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Chris_Keziah said:
One thing I always check/do with new/reman calipers is pull the bleeders out and replace them with new. All the ones I've ever seen have been complete junk, I think they just make them out of the lowest grade of metal available.

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Not only shit metal, 2 different quality box wrenches were a bit loose on the new screw, and 9mm would not fit and I spun both of the 10 mm wrenches, then hammered a 9 on it before resorting to the vise grips. I'm no expert but figured heating the caliper would be a bad idea.
I thought about drilling it out and putting a screw from the original caliper in, but worried I would fubar the caliper and not be able to return it.
 
Heck I've got two calipers for the same vehicle and had different sizes side for side, and to top it off, metric and standard!! 3/8 & 10mm! If they won't defect it, complain. They will take it back and exchange rather than lose all the other customers in line. ;-)
 
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