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Originally Posted by 94braassyota
Note the bucket below the caliper. You will lose a fair amount of brake fluid when the bolt is removed. Take care to save (or replace) the small metal washers that are on the brake line bolt, there are two of them.
After everything is removed, might be a good idea to clamp off the brake line somehow to keep air from entering the system. I did not do this, and I had to do a lot of brake pumping to get the lines bled out.
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thanks for the post of your adventure... very very small nitpick/addition (sry)... IME you will always "lose" quite a bit of fluid in the system, the empty new caliper will dwarf the amount of lost fluid out of the line (and gravity and viscosity is your enemy in the lines). IMHO the nice thing about "trying" to keep the line full like you suggest is it wreacks less havoc on everything upstream... ie abs solenoids, master cylinder, etc that are way more difficult to get all the air out of if it gets in there... (lessons learned, i upgraded to stainless lines when i had to replace the front rotors and pads on my sti and took i too much time swapping lines during the rotor and pad replacement... even with a pressure bleeder i ended up having to bench bleed the MC to get it right weeks later after 5 unsuccessful re-bleeds at the caliper, think 4 qts of fluid :( ...but i am pretty picky about pedal feel)
i would also strongly suggest replacing the copper crush washers on the lines since you are already buying new parts otherwise and they are CHEAP! i have reused in the past on other vehicles out of necessity (buggers can rooooooollll) and everything turned out fine, but i also spent a fair amount of time being paranoid rechecking for leaks
anyway, thanks for the time to write all this up, you got 'er under control.
- John