My brake fluid is leaking.. AHHH HELP!!!

[kobefan]

Hi guys,

so i changed my brakes for the first time, and after reinstalling everything, i step on the brakes, and it feels like a clutch, and there is a squirting sound coming from the front left wheel.

I apply brake fluid since some came out while chaning the brakes, but after i push on the brakes, the squirting sound starts again. So im not sure where its coming from?

Any help?

thanks

[Jed118]

When you changed your brakes, I bet you let the flexhose take the weight of the caliper. ANY pulling or twisting can damage the flexhose, especially of force is exerted on them. I've done it so many times that i allow my caliper assembly to rest on the stabilizer bar: it is reccomended to have a coathanger suspend the caliper. I don't know how the accent brakes are, but on my car it's a floating 2 peice assembly.

In any case, im sure you will need a flexhose, and to bleed the brakes. Do not operate teh car, or of you must, pinch the flexhose above the split with a vicegrip and BRAKE CAREFULLY! your car will pull to the opposite side of the defective brake! Also, to avoid having to bleed the master, do not let the fluid level go low in the reservior.

Worst case scenario, get a new flexhose, replace it, let it gravity bleed (making sure there is always fluid in the master) and then do a quick bleed on that side only.