Ok really need help here. Brake Problems.
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Staging Lane
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Florida
Ok really need help here. Brake Problems. I know, I know this is a REAL stupid thing I got to ask.
Ok quick rundown. 98 Trans Am. Changed Rotors, calipers, Pads 2 months ago. Shortly after a knocking noise started out of my fronts driver side wheel assembly. Very noticeable at low speeds. Increases with speed. I pulled the wheel off today after a brake light came on. I had fluid covering the rim and thrown all over the place. Caliper was leaking where the hose makes contact. Seems the hole in the bolt wasnt matching up with the hole in the hose. Seems that on the hose goes two brass washers. I noticed 4 on there. So I took 2 off and everything looked fine. Put it all together filled the fluid. Pumped the brakes and all the fluid poured out. Does anyone have a good diagram of the brake calipers? One of the washers I left on there was stuck to the brake line so I left it there (almost felt like part of the brake line). Am I supposed to have two there?
Ok quick rundown. 98 Trans Am. Changed Rotors, calipers, Pads 2 months ago. Shortly after a knocking noise started out of my fronts driver side wheel assembly. Very noticeable at low speeds. Increases with speed. I pulled the wheel off today after a brake light came on. I had fluid covering the rim and thrown all over the place. Caliper was leaking where the hose makes contact. Seems the hole in the bolt wasnt matching up with the hole in the hose. Seems that on the hose goes two brass washers. I noticed 4 on there. So I took 2 off and everything looked fine. Put it all together filled the fluid. Pumped the brakes and all the fluid poured out. Does anyone have a good diagram of the brake calipers? One of the washers I left on there was stuck to the brake line so I left it there (almost felt like part of the brake line). Am I supposed to have two there?
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Staging Lane
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Florida
OK thanks. I think that the old washer that goes between banjo bolt and the brake line. (Which felt stuck to the line, which I left there.) Is now my main problem. I called it a night. I will look at it tomorrow. I hope with there being 4 washers and the banjo bolt not sitting right there hasn't been any damage. With the washers stuck on I never even saw the old ones.
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Those washers are copper crush seals and are one-time-use items. Go to an auto parts store, get new ones, install them (one on the bolt head side, one on the caliper side) and torque down that bolt. There should be no more leak after that.
