| | | quote | | Originally posted by solotwo: I just had a problem very similar to yours. I noticed a leak coming from the bolt/nut that holds the parking brake bracket onto the caliper. I had just finished a partial drop of the cradle to change the trans. I can't remember why I had to tighten the nut, but I did. Oh. I put a new cable on for the passenger side. Any way a few days later I noticed I was getting a leak from this area. I thought I would have to replace the caliper. It was only about a year ago that I installed it. So I did some research and found the torque spec.for the nut. I loosened the nut and retighten the nut to the proper torque spec. The leak stopped and I havent had one since. I don't recall the torque spec but it was some what low. I have an 88. |
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Thanks to all, especially solotwo, I loosened that e-brake lever nut--man they had that thing on there tight, I had to use a 450lb torque air impact wrench to remove it, but I got it off and re-tightened to torque specs (which are 35lbs for all Fieros 84-88) then drove it over 1.5 hrs --alot of stop and start driving and mashing the brakes pretty good to give it a work out, pulled it into shop checked again--no leaks ==dry as a bone--did some other stuff on the car--checked again 5-6hrs later, still dry as a bone. Hopefully when I check later today it will be the same, I`m sure it is fixed though--and here I was ready to buy a new powder coated caliper-----Not..... Thanks Again!!!
