Cannot bleed rear caliper... help?
 

I bled all 4 corners of the Z on Sunday.

Issue:
The rear caliper's outer bleeder screw does NOT bleed no matter how much it's "opened"
- Only the inside bleeder screw bleeds.

Thoughts why this might be the case?

Replace the bleeder.

This.

It's probably got a booger in it.
I replaced all of mine when I bled them awhile back.

Remove the bleeder. Use a small drill bit held with vise-grips. Use this set-up as a hand drill to clean out the holes. If no dirt. You have a problem in the caliper.

Okay cool, i can work with that.

No strange-ness that it's the outside-rear bleeder on both rear calipers?

...just checkin.

:tiphat:

Swap the bleeders from inside to outside. If the issue follows, you know what is going on.

ahh, i see what yah did there. :happydance:

Good idea.:tup:

Purchased 4x new bleeders... meh, what's $20.

Will be replaced soon!

Details to follow...

Been there done that with my upgrade set of Wilwood brakes on the rear of my 1975 280z. They forgot to drill a hole in the dang thing. His may be plugged with dirt/junk.

I used to find the bleeders full of crap. I just drilled them out. Every once in awhile. I had to replace one. Used to find alot of screwed up new replacement parts. Spark plugs with no threads, thermostats with no springs, shocks that you could the shaft out of the body, etc. :icon14:

but shocks like that are no bueno... sheesh. Tell me more about... quality.

Replaced rear caliper bleeder screws, making only slightly a mess of my garage in the process.

Everything working / bleeding fine now.

:tup:

How was the old bleeder screws?

Old ones "look" okay, but must have some booger in it or something. Still have them laying around... lemme check!