Re: [T3] Please recycle your old calipers. I'll buy them.

["T JENKINS" <coopertwpk@msn.com>]

I will have 2 sets soon I have a complete front axle plus another set off of 
my parts car, how about just trading the 2 sets for rebuilding mine, do you 
want them from the ball joint out or do you want just the caliper? I can 
leave the brackets attached if you want.
Tracy Jenkins
760-951-1752
P.S. an body need the exhaust tube that crosses over to the tip( forgot the 
name )a local shop has 1 for 20 it has a vw label on it I bought one for my 
self.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: [T3] Please recycle your old calipers. I'll buy them.


> I need caliper cores.
>
> My stock of early type 3 calipers has been completely depleted and yet I
> continue to get in more calipers to rebuild. Usually I can just rebuild 
> and
> return the calipers that I am sent, but more and more I'm finding that the
> calipers I'm getting have a problem that makes them "less than perfect" 
> for
> rebuilding.
>
> We can still buy new calipers for our cars, but they are really NOT the 
> right
> parts. They have smaller pistons, for less braking power, and lack several
> features that our OE calipers came with. I don't recommend them.
>
> I need cores.
>
> I suspect that many of you have old calipers lying around that you figure 
> will
> turn out to be useful someday. I'm here to tell you that old calipers just 
> left
> lying around, will be almost worthless after a few years. The brake fluid 
> in
> them absorbs moisture and becomes corrosive. They may get so rusty inside 
> that
> no amount of TLC will bring them back from the dead.
>
> You have a few choices: You can let them die and throw them away; you can
> rebuild them NOW, yourself, you can send them to me to rebuild for you 
> NOW, or
> you can just admit that you're never going to get around to it, and send 
> them
> to me so that I can salvage as much as possible from them and help to keep 
> type
> 3s with good brakes on the road.
>
> If you send me your old cores I will repay you your postage and a little 
> more
> for your trouble. I'm only interested in OE style calipers, however, so 
> make
> sure that there is a cutout in the face of the piston, as shown in the 
> Bentley
> manual. If you send me calipers that are obviously aftermarket I'm afraid 
> those
> have no value to me.
>
> If you want to send me calipers and let me sort them out, that's fine, but 
> I'll
> only pay for OE style calipers. Look at the face of the piston: If the 
> face of
> the piston has a cutout so that the piston does NOT make full circle 
> contact
> with the back of the pad, then that is an OE piston and I will pay you for 
> the
> shipping and your trouble. There is a good picture of the face of an OE 
> piston
> in the Bentley manual; they are easy to identify.
>
> Pistons which have a deep well in the center of the face, more than 1/2" 
> deep,
> are also NOT OE pistons.
>
> I will accept OE caliper which have ANY other flaws.
>
> Please email me directly if you have some calipers to contribute to the 
> cause.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- 
> Jim Adney
> jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, WI 53711-3054
> USA
>
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