Whole lotta Miata

[Jake]

"This HAS to be the right bolt (very frustrated, almost willing the bolt to work)" pulls it out to take a look at it "oh maybe it isn't" :lol: :lol: :lol:.

Hahah, I've done that so many times.

Eventually you realize that spending $3 on a box of sandwich-sized Ziplock bags from the grocery store is a great idea, as is a Sharpie to label them

Glad you were at least able to get things back together, Taylor. Is the plan to eventually do NA8 front brakes as well? Pretty odd that a past owner just threw NA8 rears on it, but hey, maybe a caliper seized and that's what the PO had laying around at the time.

Sounds like you need to figure out why the fluid is leaking, too - is it coming out of the seal for the piston or elsewhere? The good news is that reman calipers are $Cheap if you look around. Joey had to get a set of fronts for his '90 and paid like $22 for a reman set on eBay.

Also, bleeding the brakes, even with cheapass fluid from AutoZone, will make them feel significantly better.