The Porsche Gods Hate Me

[wastintime]

Yep, they hate me... there is no other explanation. I put my new calipers on the car, everything fit, so I bled the brakes. Since the circuit had been completely dry I'd been told to bleed each of them twice. I did it twice and very stupidly didn't stop even though the pedal felt ok. I decided to do it 3 times to be safe. On the last wheel the third time around the caliper actually cracked in half. Just from tightening the bleeder... *sigh* more money and more downtime. Lol, I really should buy a second car and stop relying on the 912.

[Ads912]

Wow, the caliper cracked in half?!?!
The bleeder should have stripped long before the caliper cracked. I hope that you take it back to where you bought it.

If the caliper was faulty, the Porsche Gods like you!
You could have been doing 70MPH when that thing broke.

[wastintime]

That actually is a very good point. I was too mad to think of it when I posted that.
Unfortunately I don't think I can take it back though, for one it really was my fault for overtightening it, plus it wasn't a new or rebuilt caliper. I don't think the caliper itself was faulty, it seemed to work really well, until the last bleeding. Somehow tightening the bleeder just cracked all of the metal around the bleeder, and down the length of the caliper.