Re: Gen III Front Calipers

From: BARRY OLIVER (DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us)
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 10:30:55 EST


er, hydraulic pressure from the fluid behind it?? If your assertion had
any merit, you wouldn't ever have to bleed your brakes because the air
would just rise to the M-C and things would be peachy... lol You did
make me think for a second, tho..

>>> ttroidl@bluefrognet.net 03/22/04 11:53AM >>>

if the bleeder is on the BOTTOM how are you going to get the AIR OUT?

the air comes out the TOP!
Tony.

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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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