HELP! Loosing brake fluid but no puddles on the ground??....

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Old 12-27-2004, 08:33 PM
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Default HELP! Loosing brake fluid but no puddles on the ground??....

Could this be my brake master cylinder going bad?? 198xxx miles mostly all original parts only new lines and one caliper on the rear. Can I use a B4 master on my B3? In case nobody here has noticed I obviously have alot of B4 parts availible(like 3 with no engines but every thing else).
Old 12-27-2004, 08:46 PM
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Default check the insides of the wheels

one of my rear calipers started leaking after i replaced it, ended up coating the inside of the wheel and the caliper and such. Easy to see if you bend down, but never really got all the way to the ground. HTH,
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Default Its a pain to do, especially this time of year...

But the best thing to do would be to check the piston seals in your brake calipers. If you take a small flat head screw driver and lift up on the dust boots of the calipers to see if there is any fluid in them that will tell you if the pistons are bad
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Its probably inside the vacuum assist, or a leaking clutch hyd-system?
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Also check the carpet in the drivers footwell.
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