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Posted 25 January 2023 - 02:21 PM
Hello everyone, I have recently removed the girlock calipers off my LJ and the bleeder screws are at the bottom side of the calipers, are they installed on the wrong sides?
Does anyone have any photos of their girlock calipers installed showing the bleeder screw?
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Posted 25 January 2023 - 02:37 PM
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Posted 25 January 2023 - 07:51 PM
Bleeders are always at the top
Yes you have them downside up
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Posted 25 January 2023 - 09:51 PM
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Posted 25 January 2023 - 10:08 PM
Love your explanation Neil…
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Posted 26 January 2023 - 12:37 PM
So If upside down, (or more correctly installed on the wrong side of the car - crossed over) how were the brakes ever bleed?
what were the brakes like and how long have they been that way?
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Posted 26 January 2023 - 04:13 PM
I bought a LC years ago and after a few months I thought the brakes weren’t great so I thought I would bleed them. They were upside down, don’t know how they bled them.
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Posted 27 January 2023 - 07:14 AM
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Posted 27 January 2023 - 10:38 AM
You unbolt the caliper, turn it bleeder up, bleed, reinstall.
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Yep that will work, if you take off the disc as well and leave the caliper on the disc.
the brake hose to caliper length would interesting as well.
Edited by Balfizar, 27 January 2023 - 10:40 AM.
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Posted 27 January 2023 - 10:45 AM
So If upside down, (or more correctly installed on the wrong side of the car - crossed over) how were the brakes ever bleed?
what were the brakes like and how long have they been that way?
I only just bought the car, it has been sitting in a shed for 20 years and calipers were seized when I got it so don’t know if they were ever bled properly
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Posted 27 January 2023 - 08:20 PM
Yep that will work, if you take off the disc as well and leave the caliper on the disc.
the brake hose to caliper length would interesting as well.
Same... as they run the steel pipe from hose to caliper
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Posted 28 January 2023 - 12:48 AM
The auto bleeders,
that has the hose clipped on the nipple,
and the non-return ball valve that sits in the fluid jar at end of the hose,
can bleed the air out of the system how ever the way (up or down) the nipple faces. 
You just keep pumping the brakes, till all the air bubbles disappear from the clear tube. 
Edited by N/A-PWR, 28 January 2023 - 12:53 AM.
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