Blew the seals in my rear calipers

[Spook50]

Yeah so I'm cruisin along at 60 MPH today on my way home from work, and a damned deer runs right out into the road and stops in front of me. So of course I dynamite my brakes and still hit the bitch (just hard enough to throw her around and make her scamper off into the woods), but then I notice I now have a s***load more travel in my brake pedal than I should. I carefully drive the rest of the way home, keeping brake use to a minimum and look around to see what's up, and both my rear calipers ('85 Eldorado) are pissing from the piston seals. Looks like I'll be putting the Monte Carlo calipers on tomorrow after work. Very, very aggravating.

The moral of the story is be sure to check your brakes if you end up doing a panic stop from highway speeds. It wasn't cool...

 

[inkpot]

Howdy! Why not just get a rebuild kit and keep the Eldorado units? Are the bores damaged? It would be a bunch cheaper. Same thing probably would have happened with Monte Carlo units of the same age. Are you running a porportioning valve? jOHN

 

[Tapage]

I'm running my eldorado calipers with e-brake from almost 4 years ( at least ) few emergency brakes, and gotta screaming my 37" mtr .. never ( knock wood ) had a issues with 'em ..

 

[Spook50]

Howdy! Why not just get a rebuild kit and keep the Eldorado units? Are the bores damaged? It would be a bunch cheaper. Same thing probably would have happened with Monte Carlo units of the same age. Are you running a porportioning valve? jOHN

I've got brand new Monte Carlo calipers that I'm swapping in. They don't have the ebrake hardware that the Eldo ones do (which likes to leak sometimes too), but I'm ditching the ebrake setup in favor of a transfer case ebrake once TSM has the 60/62 version finalized, which should hopefully be within the next few months.

My final goad is to have a full float rear end that uses modified knuckle housings and 60 series front calipers. That way I'm back to being all Toyota for my brakes.