Brakes, how f$%#^^ed am I?

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Options:

1. New caliper.
2. Use heat/candlewax trick with a screw extractor?
3. Use heat/PB B'laster or Kroil trick with a screw extractor?

I've opened bleeders that I'm sure have not been opened in about 12 years on my old pickup truck easily, without snapping a one, thusly:

Heat the bleeder and surrounding area nice and warm, warm enough that the PB B'laster burns off, but not much hotter, I'm afraid to burn seals up.  I don't even worry about trying to heat the caliper but not the bleeder, the heat moves things around enough to break them loose.  Spray PB on liberally until it stops burning off and stays wet on there.  Keep spritzing it for another 30 seconds or so and try the bleeder.  It pops free like new.

I'm surprised you snapped a front bleeder, those are bigger, aren't they?

John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...

----- Original Message -----
From: C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 7:26 pm
Subject: Brakes, how f$%#^^ed am I?

> Okay, so I have an 8V, lets pretend it's a Scirocco. (Okay  it's a
> Cabby)It had the ever popular lots of fluid but the pedal goes to the
> floor problem. So I got the old MC off, the new one bench bled and
> installed, and the back lines bled. On the PS front corner, and guess
> what? Despite Kroilage, snapped the bleeder. Right clean off. So 
> what are
> the options, the nearest cliff is too far to go with no brakes.
> Seriously, how do you extract the screw safely? Pounding and heat 
> somehowdon't seem too wise. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Cathy
> 1987 2L 16V Scirocco "the silver headache"
> 1979 1.8L 10:1 8V "Klaus"
> 1988 white on white on white Cabby, wannabe Scirocco "Roxy"
> "Put the pedal to the metal and I'm off, and it's scary, but one 
> thing'sfor sure, keep your foot on the floor" (Kazzer)
> 
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