One of my flex hoses is cracked and leaking brake fluid. I'm not sure if its the inner or outer flex hose. Tbh I'm not even sure if it has inner and outers. Its a 96 quattro. Anybody have a picture or part numbers or anything?

Thanks in advance,

G

 

Could be either, you need to physically look to know. Sent you a PM

 

Upgrade to steel braided all around!

RAI Motorsport, do you guys carry those?

 

Seems the leak is coming from the caliper behind that bolt where the ebrake mechanism is. I'm gunna pull the caliper out and take a better look. The flex hose attached to the caliper is cracked too so I'll have to replace them anyways.

 

Bad bad news about the caliper. I had the same problem with both of my rear calipers, and I tried to rebuild one... Epic FAIL. Then, when doing some research, I found out if that particular seal goes bad, you need to replace the whole caliper. I think I paid about a hunder bucks each for remanufactured calipers at AutoZone, plus a core charge.

 

**** eh, it's supposed to be rebuildable but not really IRL sorta thing? I wonder if I can JB Weld around the seal until I get a new caliper.

 

I suppose the JB Weld thing might work in theory as long as you don't use the e-brake. I wouldn't recommend it though.

Yes, the calipers can be rebuilt, except that seal... sorry to say, but you're SOL...