if the bleeder is on the BOTTOM how are you going to get the AIR OUT?
the air comes out the TOP!
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----- Original Message -----
From: BARRY OLIVER <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Gen III Front Calipers
>
> Is that a Joke? Like a metric crescent wrench or a quart of blinker
> fluid? I just had my '99's brakes apart and that is wrong, it's not put
> togeather like that. The bleeder goes down, the hose goes up. How
> would he have enough slack in the brake lines to turn his wheels if it
> attached on the bottom of the caliper? I think you just got stung by a
> secret shopper or something.
>
> >>> SilverEightynine@aol.com 03/20/04 09:47AM >>>
>
> Had a customer come in with a 1999 Dakota (verified by VIN number and
> build date on door sticker) looking for a drivers side replacement
> caliper. They kept coming in (special order) as being the wrong
> calipers. 98, 99, and 00 all show different caliper part numbers. When
>
> looking at his drivers side caliper piston oriented on the right side
> (as is when installed on the truck) the bleeder screw was at the top
> of
> the caliper and the brake hose attatched at the bottom. The calipers
> he
> was getting were the opposite. Anyone confirm when Dodge started
> messing with the calipers and what they did to them? I know they
> changed
> ball joints etc at some point and I remember people saying things about
>
> lift kits for Gen IIIs not working between older/newer Gen III trucks.
>
> I had the last two days off work so I probably won't know how this
> guy's
> problem turned out - but I was curious for my own knowledge.
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "Why don't you ask me what it feels like to be a freak?"
>
> Terrible Tom -- AIM & Yahoo Name: SilverEightynine
>
>
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