wilwood caliper clocking for bleeder screws

[bryant]

ive been having a hell of a time getting a firm pedal. while trying all kinds of bleeding and other things i realized that the front and rear calipers sit a different clocking positions on the car. when viewing the drivers side the fronts are at about 2 o'clock and the rears are at 3 o'clock. this has me wondering if the bleeder port is not at the top most position on either the fronts or rears. does anybody know if wilwood calipers need to be at any proper clocking to be fully bleed?

[bryant]

so i just checked on wilwoods site an they say the ports need to point straight up. so my front calipers need to be unbolted and pointed up to be bleed properly.

[NOT A TA]

Sometimes you can just remove one bolt and tip them enough.

[bryant]

thats the plan. im kicking my self for not realizing this till now. i had installed these front brakes on my old maverick around 7 years ago and they had stopped great. that car got rear ended and i took them off. i put them on this car and have had squishy pedal for 3 months now. gallons of brake fluid have been bleed through it. then the other night after putting more fluid through it, it dawned on me that the front and rear calipers are at different clocking and that the bleeders will be in the wrong position on at least one of them. i had done lots of searching on bleeding and never made the connection that my calipers were not clocked to be bleed. so im posting this so the next person with a bleeding problem may find this as the answer to their problem.

[Mach1_Ron]

Also remember if the calipers have 2 bleed screws on the same end, you need to bleed both of them..... So that would be 8 total bleed screws for 4 calipers...