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Hi all, The front brakes on the '69 started making a scraping noise on Kirsten's drive home Thursday. Surprise! Looks like a piston had begun sticking, and a pad ground itself to (well, past) a rivet & put tracks in the rotor. :( Went to the foreign FLAPS and picked up new rotors (Italian!), rebuilt calipers (sans pads & hardware), pads, bearings, and bearing seal. They didn't have the hardware in stock, so I planned to re-use the old hardware for the time being. All went well... except that one of the rebuilt calipers wouldn't accept the old pad pins. They fall right out -- the holes are waaaay too big! (Also, the piston cups are totally dished out where they meet the pads -- that is, they're hollow w/ a really big diameter). The caliper is definitely the correct caliper body, for sure. The replacement for the other side went just fine, and a good thing, too: not only was a piston stuck, but the caliper had begun to weep fluid a bit. On the right side, the old caliper seemed just fine, so I dont' mind driving on it. I suppose I should do the "right" thing and get a correct rebuilt replacement caliper rather than just return it and run on the old one, eh? Also: has anyone else had this experience with oversized pin holes? I seem to recall that late-model replacement calipers have fatter pins and completely different springs. -Greg p.s.: the '69 stops on a dime! Cool! It was great before, and is now better than ever! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe