Are you joking Barry? If the bleeder pointed down then you'd have trouble
bleeding all the air from the system as air bubbles rise to the top.
Here's an example on a Gen III, although granted it's not a stock caliper.
http://www.gsmotorsports.com/viper_brakes.htm
RayB
http://www.dragtruk.com/ENTRIES/20KM1FD2KWBP.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]On Behalf Of BARRY
> OLIVER
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> 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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