rear brake bleeding question
 

when you all bleed the brakes are you doing something special with the left rear?

the bleeder screw is on the bottom which is why I ask. I did a quick bleed last night and couldnt get a firm pedal. Today I was going to invert the left rear and gravity bleed it so the bleeder was at the top, then bleed like normal.

I can report back on how that goes.

If the bleeder is on the bottom, u have the wrong caliper on there!! What yr Ex do u have? I recently did my rears and the computer at advance auto parts pulled up the wrong parts. I have an early build 2000 and the calipers r mounted to the left of the rotor on both sides. Which means it is actually the same caliper for each side. The computer pulled up different part numbers bc ford changed the calipers mid-year and r mounted toward the rear on both sides. Hope this helps!!

Do you happen to know when they switched that. Ive been messing with the Ex's rear end the last couple of days and both of my calipers are definitely on the inside. My truck is a 12/99 build

Idk the yr they switched. Mine is an 11/99 build.

What do u mean by say " on the inside"?

Hmm, well i'll be under it this afternoon and I'll have to look and make sure that stuff is on there correctly!!

NM, i read it the wrong way. I thought you were saying that the actual caliper itself on one wheel was on the outside. You just mean that they mount on the left of the rotor as you're looking at them. Doi moment.

Ahh, yes. turns out the caliper was for an 02 vehicle.

Thanks Guys.

Yep, different mounts. The bleeder screw is always to be on top.

that's what got me really confused. I knew it couldnt be right but didnt know why.

oops, double post..

Yup, it should look like this...

Attachment 60020

No, that's the 01 or 02+ calipers. The 2000 caliper is ahead of the axle and the bleeder screw is in the other location.

Does anyone have a pic of the brake setup for the 2000. I was thinking of regearing and buying an axle with 4.30 gears already because its so cheap. I didnt know that there was a different setup.

On a 2000, one caliper is in the leading position and the other in the trailing position. They used the same caliper.

Oh. So i could just reuse my calipers and just swap sides and use the brackets off of my X.

Not exactly. What monsta meant was the 2000 use the part number on each side. If u reuse urs, one. Bleeder will be on the bottom and that is not good.

You can reuse the right one and turn in your left as a core for a 2001+ left one.

Oh. Now I get it. Thats why I was just asking for a pic. Remember the old saying pics are worth a 1000 words.....well.....Thats me.

Sorry to hijack but I was about to post a question directly related to this thread when I read it, but I’m still confused after reviewing what you have each said so far.

I have a 2000 Ex with a build date of 5/2000 that has axles recently installed from an F250 Dana 60 front and Sterling LS 10.5 in the rear. The guy who did the swap for me basically went through all 8 sets of rotors and calipers and found the best 4 of each an that is what he used. New rotors and calipers have been on the “to do” list but since this isn’t my daily driver it wasn’t pressing. Been having a small vib at about 40 mph and noticed it only starts once the truck gets warm and thought maybe I had a sticky caliper. So this weekend after a good hour drive I went around and felt all my hubs to see their temperature and noticed that the driver’s rear was almost cold to the touch, compare to the other three wheels which were very warm (as I expected). After looking at the wheels I see that both rear wheel calipers are “rear mounted) and the drivers side rotor appears to have little surface wear. It almost looks like it has road grime/rust showing on the rotor face. Here are pics of each.

Questions are:
Are these calipers mounted correctly?
Is it possible that driver’s caliper is just not working – no contact to the rotor? And if so wouldn’t I have a light on or something? Don’t drive it much so haven’t had to really test the brakes yet but would to find out the hard way.

Driver Side Rear Caliper
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=110373

Passenger Side Rear Caliper
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=110374

Driver Side Rear Rotor Surface (not sure if you can see the surface well enough in photo)
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=110375

Passenger Side Rear Rotor Surface (looks brighter and smooth no rust/grim on surface)
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/p...ctureid=110376

Thanks