rear brake help needed immediatley

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dkal

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If you just replaced the rear brakes, just bleed the rear brakes as you would any brake system.
I would start with the right rear and then bleed the left rear.
Bleed the system until no air bubbles are present when fluid is expelled out of the bleed screws.
Responding to Masho95 statement regarding seized calipers. I was driving along approaching a traffic light then suddenly I felt a load being put on the engine, and then I noticed a strong odor, it was the brake linings on the driver side rear smoking. My friend had a 95SHO and he had the same problem. He told me it was my rear brake caliper, sure enough it was.
The rubber boot lining on the piston was torn, fix wasn't too bad, just had a hard time removing the e-brake cable.

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got her all done, Been driving it around for a day, no issues thumb

Thanks all! hail
 

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This is seriously the brake project from ****.... my caliper is siezed like I thought, and now I have to remove the emergency brake cable... How do I do that? I can't see a clean way to remove the thing shrug

Bump for an old thread:

HOW DO YOU REMOVE THE EBRAKE CABLE THAT THREADS THROUGH THE CALIPER EYELET? Mine are frozen after 140+ miles, NY roads!

Help!
 

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Soak the area of the eyelet with PB Blaster , Kroil, or atf/acetone mix for a while. I applied some heat(not too much, you don't want to cook the rubber parts in your Caliper). I used a punch with a flat end and tapped the ferrule where the inner cable comes out and drove it out backwards Its a really good fit so it won't come out easily.
 

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Ok, much thanks to everyone for the replies. I am good with all the hardware.

Just a note: the ebrake return SPRING on the original caliper is much stronger than the RE-manufactured one; as a result, the ebrakes did not dis-engage properly when initally installed. Spring > Me.
 

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