Finally Getting The Car Brakes Put Together

Finally, after nearly a week, I have my car brakes on. This car is getting older and parts are harder to find so it took a while. At first I tried to repair the original brake caliper but it is frozen up solid. Finally I located new parts and got a ride to town to bring them home.

A friend picked me up in the morning and took me into one town about 30 - 45 minutes away to get the brake parts I had ordered the other day.

We got there and, fortunately, I opened the box to check the part. It was the wrong part. The box was right but the part was wrong. If I had taken this home, I would have lost yet another day.

So they called around and found a store in the area that had the part I needed in stock. We drove yet further to another town to get the part. I spent my last dollar on the brake caliper and mounting bracket so I did not even have money for new bleeder valves for the other brakes on the car. I had to get my core fee back before I could buy anything else.

So, after my friend finished running his errands, I finally ended up at the off grid homestead to work on my brakes. It was lunch time but I wanted to dig right in and get to work.

This time the job went quite easy in comparison with new parts.

The brakes on this Olds Aurora are like nothing I have ever worked on so it was tough for me. I have done countless brake jobs on classic cars through the years but never such a system as this.

Finally I got everything together with the exception of one thing. I could not get the parking brake cable on the brake caliper. I will have to get a special tool for that later when I get some money.

Next I had to bleed the brake line to get the air out of the new cylinder. This went relatively easy with a silicone tube and an empty water bottle.

To bleed the brakes alone you open the bleeder valve with a wrench and leave the wrench in place if possible. Put a plastic hose or tube on the end of the bleeder valve and run the other end into a plastic or glass container.

Fill up your brake reservoir with fresh fluid. Then pump your brakes one or two times to the floor slowly and then let up. Run around to the brake and check to see if fluid is filling the tube or not.

Top off the brake fluid again and repeat the entire process until fluid is filling the tube and there are no air bubbles in the line. This prevents air from back filling into the brake cylinder.

When the tube is filling up with no air bubbles you can tighten the bleeder valve and proceed to the next brake line in the system.

You should generally bleed all the brakes in this order: First the passenger rear side. Next the drivers side rear. Then the passenger front. Last the front drivers side. The idea is to bleed the lines from the longest and furthest from the master cylinder to the closest. This ensures you get all the air out of the lines.

My problem is that I need new bleeder valves but had no money to buy them. So I had to return the core from my old brake caliper first. I went back to the store and got my core back and picked up new bleeder valves for my car.

I will have to bleed all the lines in the morning.

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Troy
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