Re: Obviously I'm screwed, but...

[Dan Bubb <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>]

Another thought is to take the caliper off the car, drain all the brake
fluid out of it and stick it in the oven at 200 deg. Then use an easyout
while the caliper is still hot as hell. The aluminum caliper body will
expand and you might be able to get the bleeder screw out with an
easyout.
Try it when your wife/family isn't at home. Of course, when they get
home they'll ask you what the hell that smell is.


"Wm. Josiah Erikson" wrote:
> 
> Believe it or not, I have actually, in this exact situation, taken the
> caliper off the car, drilled the hole out deeper, rethreaded it, and put a
> bleeder nipple back in. I got my bleeder nipple from a frozen caliper that
> I happened to have lying around, but you could buy them at your local NAPA
> or equivalent, I would guess. I found that there was a lot more metal
> behind where the screw went in to drill into, and I also found that the
> angle that a standard drillbit creates at the end of the hole was correct.
> I'm still using this caliper on my Rabbit to this day (this was two years
> ago). However, you may perhaps have a different experience, as drilling
> straight in such situations is touch-and-go, if you're doing it by eye and
> hand like I was. Shearing off those bleeder valves is easy. Luckily the
> calipers aren't too expensive, and if you're me, you have tons of them
> lying around, since they're the same as Golfs, Jettas, Rabbits, other
> Sciroccos, pickups, etc... but it looks like from the year that yours
> might be a 16v, in which case that isn't so true.
>         -Josiah
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Diamond Dave wrote:
> 
> > In the process of bleeding my brakes on the Scirocco, I have just sheared
> > off one of the bleeder valves. Luckily it happened before the valve opened.
> > I used some liquid wrench on all the valves to loosen things up before the
> > job.
> >
> > So, is there any positive perspective on this? Upgrade the calipers, powder
> > coating etc..
> >
> > Will the cost of fixing this be roughly the same as getting a replacement
> > caliper?
> >
> > Any input would be appreciated. Please reply to: dbarwick@sprynet.com
> >
> > David Barwick
> > 88 Scirocco http://scirocco16v.com/profiles/david_b.htm
> > 84 Jetta GLI
> > Portland, OR
> >
> >
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