The Canary: Brake rotor replacement

[kav]

The Canary (1969 911T) needs new front pads and rotors. I have the parts and have pulled the old pads out but I've hit a snag. To replace the rotors I need to remove the calipers but the brake lines run from the master cylinder as a hard line to a bracket with clip on the inner fender well, then to a flexible line to a bracket on the shock with no clip and transitions to a hard line to the caliper. So how do I remove the caliper without disconnecting the hard line? If I disconnect am I looking at bleeding the brakes? Hoping not to get into that. What other surprises am I looking at?

Thanks

-Kav

[edmayo]

Unbolt the caliper, pull it off the rotor and use some wire to tie up the caliper to the sway bar arm so it is not hanging on the brake line. Since you'll be replacing the rotor I'm assuming you've got the seals and grease necessary to repack the wheel bearings.

[RSTarga]

do you know the age of your brake lines? While your in there, this would be a great time to change them. A Motive bleeder makes bleeding the brakes so easy that you should not think twice about doing this, just for peace of mind.

[kav]

The brake lines look in good shape so I'm going with it. I repacked the bearings. There is not retainer clip on the shock so I disconnected the hard line to the caliper and replaced the pads and rotors on each side. It's all back together and now I have to bleed the brakes. Never done this before so I have some questions. I have a brake bleeding kit so that's good. Do I need to bleed just the fronts (the one I worked on) or all four? What brake fluid do I use Dot3 or Dot4? The brake fluid in the system was blue?

Thanks

-Kav

[Flieger]

DOT 4, might as well bleed all four. Probably won't need to pump much fluid through the rears to get some with no bubbles. Start with the one furthest away RR-LR-RF-LF.