One of the front brake bleeder screws stripped on me. What is the best way to get it out? I tried using a pair of vice grip needle nose pliers without much luck.

I'm guessing that it's most likely rusted shut. use a torch to heat up the area just below the bleeder, tap the area a few times with a hammer to loosen **** up, then use the vice grips to turn it. You have to do it fast so it does'nt cool down before you attemt to turn it. Or just buy a caliper for like $50!!

Funny thing is I bled the brakes about 2 months ago and it gave me no problems. I'll try the torch.

then you probably just overtightened the bleeder last time you bled them.



they don't need to be very tight to not leak, people tend to overtighten them though... like oil filters.



be careful with the torch too, there are some rubber seals in the area that you don't want to overheat. Just remember it's aluminum, it doesnt take long to heat, a short burst of torch will heat the area around the bleeder pretty well, just work fast. If you keep it on you'll just end up heating the whole caliper, boiling fluid, and maybe damaging seals. i'm assuming it's the 4 piston calipers..

tap in a smaller size socket.. then remove

I had this happen to me when I did the brakes on my 88. I ended up drilling the bleeder screw out and retapping the hole. Just be careful not to drill too deep. My caliper was also off at the time so I had it in a vice.

Thanks. Do autoparts stores carry bleeder screws for our cars?

It should be just a metric bleeder screw, nothing exotic https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

Yea, I bought a couple of them through Schucks online for pretty cheap.

I used a monkey wrench. I striped one of my brake lines last week and my father told me to use a monkey wrench and it worked.



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I bought some speed bleeders at O'Reily. Morons sold me the wrong size. They looked too big from the start but the guy insisted that they were the right size because it was what his catalog called for. This was just short of 10 pm when the store was about to close. So I went back to the shop and tried again to get th bleeder screw out. Heating it and grabbing with vice grips didn't work and stripped it out even more. I then decided to hammer a slightly smaller 6 pt socket on it. I think it was 7mm. Finally got the bitch out. The new bleeder didn't fit. Tried to take one off one of my friend's non-running 2md gen, but his stupid wheels didn't allow enough clearance to get a regular socket on the lug and we couln't find the special tool. Then tried one off our 1st gen project car, wrong size. Got a ride back to the house from a friend to get the keys for my third gen. I thought I had an extra speedbleeder in the glove box. It doesn't fit. Ended up taking one off the front caliper. Don't matter, third gen doesn't run yet. Bled the brakes and was finally done. The damn e-brake still sticks https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif

atleast you got it fixed https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png