May be this is a good time to replace your brake fluid.  Remember you
should replace the brake fluid once for every 2 years anyway.
Go get a Mityvac vacuum pump w/bleeding kit at AutoZone for $25 which will
make your brake bleeding a lot easier.
Good luck,

Yi-Ruey Wei
87 Vanagon GL Syncro w/78K miles
85 Jetta GLI w/169K miles
Dallas, Texas

> Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:39:24 -0800
> From:         Vanman <mckayaa@OIT.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: disconnect brake line to remove caliper?
>
> Sorry that I cannot help you, but I can tell you that you are not crazy.
My
> 85 GL has the front calipers set up the same way.  Thank God that we
don't
> have to remove the calipers when we change the brake pads!  Good luck, I
> will be watching the list for an answer, because I am going to have to
> change the rotors sometime here, and I don't look foward to bleeding the
> brake lines.
>
> -Aaron Mckay
>                                  mckayaa@oit.edu
>                                  college student in mechanical
>                                  engineering at Oregon Institute of
Technology
>                                  '85 vanagon GL
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