Is it possible to put the rear calipers on the wrong side of the car. They are not marked like the front! Non Brembo 04 touring 6spd 18" I cant get my brakes right and I am starting to wonder if the rear calipers are on the wrong sides of the car . Have air and cant get it all out. Even after taking off caliper with line attatched putting wood in there and moving caliper while bleeding an air bubble popped out of each rear. But still only have about 60% stoppinbg power.

 

Hrmm... havent thought about this yet... but I think the calipers are the same part number per side... meaning the same...

Ill check the part numbers on monday to be sure...

 

Cool that would be nice. If I were to switch sides from where they are now the bleeders would be more near the top of the setup. As they are now the bleeder is at the botrtom of the setup.

 

My educated guess would be if the bleeder valve is on the bottom of the caliper then "hellyeah" its wrong. it should always be on top.....

 

make sure the larger piston is toward the front of the car (down) and that the bleeders are pointing up.

sean

 

HUH? The bleeders can only face up even if i do have them on wrong, regardless they always face up, LOL

 

No they don't. I just happen to have my brembos off right now, refinishing them in candy apple red, and have a spare set of non-brembos. Here are 3 pictures of the same brake. The first is the brake by itself.

 

this is what it looks like if you have it on the wrong side:

 

This is what it should look like. If you've done this, don't feel too bad, you aren't the first and won't be the last. I did it on my 240Z and even the shop had a hard time figuring it out, and one of my powdercoating clients recently did the same on his 350z. Notice how in both cases the bleed valve points towards the front of the car, but in the wrong one, the bleeder is below the point where the brake line enters the caliper and on the correct one it is above that point. That is what you want.

 

Sweet 2003z you are da man again . I do have them on wrong. In other post I thought you were talking about the painting calipers thread i posted. Spoke before I read a lil farther, oops. Thanks a whole shitload guys for all your help!!

 

no prob, just happy to help!

 

yeah... different...